Find a little-known atrocity and claim squatter's rights.
Governments that flocked to march in solidarity for free speech in Paris last Saturday have done little about this atrocity – far worse when inflicted by a state than by God-delirious terrorists acting as divine executioners.
After the Afghanistan and Iraq wars, the West is bone weary and has little interest in atrocities unfolding in Syria or anywhere else.
It still troubles me that generations of Japanese children have learned little about the atrocities our forefathers committed in China.
First, the right foamed at the mouth over Ward Churchill, a professor of ethnic studies at the University of Colorado, when it discovered, somewhat belatedly, that he had written an article on the day after September 11th that described the victims of the atrocity as "little Eichmanns".
"Regardless of your personal beliefs, I would hope that stopping atrocities against little babies is something we can all agree to put an end to".
Putin and the Communist Party leadership practice very different politics than their predecessors, but they have also spent very little energy recognizing the atrocities of their organizations' pasts.
A few of the Bravo Company soldiers later heard about the excesses committed by Charlie Company and about impending investigations there, but somehow there was little concern about the atrocities they themselves had committed.
But it followed all manner of horrific executions – by beheading, stoning and being thrown off high buildings – charted in "snuff" videos coming out of Syria and Iraq; they generate expressions of horror, if little expectation of the atrocities ending.
But critics say Der Landser, with its failure to acknowledge atrocities and little sense of regret for the deaths of millions of people, is stuck in a World War II time warp that ignores efforts by broader German society to come to terms with Nazi crimes.
Fifteen years into existence and despite dozens of high-profile atrocities, precious little is known regarding what exactly Boko Haram wants, how it is structured, or how it gets its money.
