Mediamax talked to Yair Auron, an Israeli historian, scholar and expert specializing on Holocaust and Genocide studies.

40 Days of Musa Dagh was one of the most readable books in Jewish ghettos during the Holocaust. I found some evidence that when people were hesitating - whether they have to revolt in the ghetto or to hide - they used the example of Musa Dagh.

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Unfortunately, I am the only one who teaches Genocide in Israel. Education is very important - we don’t know what happened in Kongo, because Kongo is very far.

But we know what happened recently to Yazidis in Syria and some parts of Iraq. We know, but nobody cares. They [politicians] are not ready to do even one step to try to prevent. Darfur is continuing since 2003, for 12 years! But they are killing and killing people there. And we are responsible and we are guilty. By “we” I mean also Jewish and Armenians because we don’t do anything.

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You can’t measure the suffering. For the one who suffers it’s absolute. You don’t have the moral right to measure it and we are doing it, Jews are doing it. And it’s morally  unacceptable for me.

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I am very proud because I began the course with 7 students in 2007 and now, every year, in three semesters we have 4500 students. And it’s not a mandatory course, they choose it. All of them know about the Armenian Genocide and I am sure all of them support the Armenian cause clearly.

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A French journalist spoke with the perpetrators on Rwanda – they went to kill people in the morning, and in the evening they went to the bar to have some beer, afterwards they went home to have sex with their wives and the next morning they again went to kill people.

There is woman in Congo, she became a close friend of mine. She lost all her family. Her husband and three children were killed with the machete. One evening she listened to a dispute between the wife and the husband. The husband came from the checkpoint full of blood, and the wife shouted at him – “You will not go tomorrow, how many people have you killed today?”. And he answered: “I will go tomorrow, because my duty is to save Rwanda”. It exists in every genocide, in your Genocide, in our Genocide. “We have to kill Jews, we have to kill Armenians, they are dangerous, Jews are controlling the world”.