We are duty bound to commemorate the victims of the Holocaust but we should, as from now, reflect and raise our voices on the ongoing suffering of the unfortunate millions who become victims of the politics of division and the machine of war, and who fall within the categories of the disenfranchised, the poor and the forgotten, President of Malta George Vella said.

“If we do not do it now, who will be organizing a Remembrance Day for these people in the future?” he asked.

In an opinion piece published in The Malta Independent today, Holocaust Remembrance Day, President Vella writes that “segregation through political and legal means, and the use of dehumanizing language and policies erecting mental and physical demarcations between ‘us’ and ‘them’, continue to be at the root of human suffering and injustice.”

President Vella also referred to the “millions of unborn babies” who are killed before seeing the light of day, many other millions who live in the “most abject of conditions” and more millions of refugees who are searching for stability and security.

“The ideology that certain people are superior to others still exists. Whether we admit it or not, this is at the basis of racism, xenophobia, discrimination, and apartheid,” he writes.

The President's article may be read here