"In many ways it is unfair but it is nevertheless true that this genocide will be on your watch. How you deal with it will be your legacy," Clooney said. "Your Rwanda, Your Cambodia, your Auschwitz."
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"After September 30 you won't need the U.N. You will simply need men with shovels and bleached white linen and headstones," said Clooney, an Oscar winner.
Wiesel, a Holocaust survivor, writer and the 1986 Nobel Peace Prize laureate, warned that "passivity helps the oppressor and not the oppressed" and urged the council to remember the 1994 Rwandan genocide.
"I do," Wiesel said. "Six hundred thousand to 800,000 human beings were murdered. We know then as we know now they could have been saved, and they were not."
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"The United States has called it genocide," Clooney said. "For you it's called ethnic cleansing. But make no mistake: it is the first genocide of the 21st century. And if it continues unchecked it will not be the last."
Crooks & Liars has the video and you can also watch this video of George and Nick Clooney in Sudan and Chad this past April.
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