Some aspects of my books yes are hard to stomach. I do that for a reason, to make us confront our own fears and our own mortality. But nothing is so hard to stomach as what is happening to children in the world today. I have worked for years with the NSPCC and the Irish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, but nothing is so horrific as the atrocities that are being committed against children right now in the Middle East. We are supposed to learn from history, but todays genocide is just as bad as the genocide committed by the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) against the Poles in 1943-45. I thought we fought a terrible war to stop that kind of thing ever happening again, but as Herbert Read wrote about the first World War , Our victory is our defeat. The world was not renewed. Power was retained where power had been misused. I have written about the horrors of the Warsaw Uprising and the massacre of Polish politicians and priests and intellectuals in the Kampinos Forest, but I still havent been able to find the words to write about Volhynia. Pregnant women were bayoneted, and worse, Children were attacked with hammers and saws, and lashed to roadside telegraph poles with barbed wire. Much of what happened is unprintable. I am not a politician so I am not publicly going to apportion blame, except to those who never learn from history that we never learn from history, and it is always the innocent who suffer.
Posted on: Sat, 09 Aug 2014 15:16:49 +0000
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