The following is what Robert Jackson, chief American prosecutor at the Nuremberg Trials, had to say about genocidal behaviour:
“No regime bent on exterminating another peoples will describe their intent in so many words, since such intent is imbedded in the very operation of the system of extermination. On the contrary, the actions of the agencies of murder are enough proof of such intent, and therefore when the transporting of people into the conditions of disease and death is condoned and facilitated by a government, and when these crimes are concealed from the scrutiny of the world of the same government or other agencies, it can be safely asserted that this regime intends to annihilate the targeted people and is guilty before the world of crimes against humanity.”
On January 30, 2018 Halifax Regional Council, after I had lobbied for it for over 30 years, by a vote of 12 to 4, approved a motion to remove the statue of British colonial Governor Edward Cornwallis from Cornwallis Park, which is located across from the Canadian National Railway Station and the Westin Hotel, in Halifax, Nova Scotia. The following day it was removed. While the statue was being removed a Bald Eagle flew a circle over the action, which may have been a message from our ancestors approving the removal.
To me the statue was and is a white supremacist symbol. Thus, for me and the vast majority of Indigenous Peoples, its presence on a pedestal in a widely used public park hi ...
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