IRELAND
Irish Independent
But in Ireland we have never pursued the people responsible for horrors such as the little bodies in the cesspit.
Emer O’Kelly
Published 08/06/2014
Seventy years ago, on the orders of a maniac, little children and babies were herded into barren camps in Germany and occupied Poland by men in black uniforms. They were starved to death in those camps; sometimes they had hideous medical experiments carried out upon them while alive, so hideous the silence of death was probably merciful. And when they died, their little bodies were thrown into huge pits. Because they were scum: Jewish scum.
And since then we have called what was done in those camps the greatest collective evil ever carried out by humankind.
Twenty years ago, the opposing tribes who comprised the population of a country called Rwanda festered in such hatred for each other that one tribe took to the ritual slaughter of the other in an attempt to wipe its existence from the face of the earth. And often the mass of slaughtered bodies, including those of little children, and comprising 20 per cent of the country’s population, was so great that they were flung unceremoniously into great pits. Because they were scum: tribally inferior scum.
A year later, a town was wiped off the face of the earth in a place called Srebrenica in what had until recently been Yugoslavia, the flower of its youth, the young men and boys, marched into woodland where they were ritually slaughtered, and their bodies thrown into huge pits. Because they were scum: Muslim scum.
And the men who gave the orders and supervised the slaughter went on the run. But the world pursued them, and charged them with crimes against humanity.
And in Ireland, where there is still a widespread smugness about our decency and our devotion to the Faith of our Fathers, the Virgin Mother of God, and the efficacy of the Holy Rosary, a pit has been found filled with the skeletons of tiny babies and small children, 800 of them, dumped in the pit which some prefer to call a “mass grave” but is actually a septic tank.
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