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1月27日付け、「CNN」(電子版）に掲載された記事（AP)より。
「アナン：ホロコースト否定論者は”偏屈者”」
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Annan: Holocaust deniers 'bigots'
Friday, January 27, 2006 Posted: 0925 GMT (1725 HKT)
GENEVA, Switzerland (AP) -- U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan has said the world must remember the unique tragedy of the Holocaust and reject all attempts by "bigots" to deny the extermination of the Jews during World War II.
"It must be remembered, with shame and horror, for as long as human memory continues," Annan said Friday in a statement released to mark the first international day commemorating the victims of the Holocaust.
"Holocaust denial is the work of bigots," he said.
Annan was scheduled later Friday to meet with Holocaust survivors in the Swiss city of Zurich. The commemoration comes just three days after Iran said it would follow through with plans to organize a conference on what it terms the "scientific evidence" for the Holocaust.
The planned conference, which has drawn condemnation from Western leaders, is yet another step in hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's public campaign against Israel.
Ahmadinejad has called the Nazis' World War II slaughter of 6 million European Jews a "myth," and said the Jewish state should be "wiped off the map."
Without mentioning Iran by name, Annan said "we must reject their false claims whenever, wherever and by whomever they are made."
"Remembering is a necessary rebuke to those who say the Holocaust never happened or has been exaggerated," he said. "Millions of Jews and members of other minorities were murdered in the most barbarous ways imaginable. We must never forget those men, women and children, or their agony," Annan said.
Last year, the U.N. General Assembly commemorated the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi death camps with a special session, a stark change for a body that was often reluctant to address the extermination of the Jews during World War II.
Soviet troops liberated the largest death camp, Auschwitz, on January 27, 1945. Between 1 million and 1.5 million prisoners -- most of them Jews -- perished in gas chambers or died of starvation and disease there. Overall, 6 million Jews were killed in the Holocaust.
On Tuesday, Iran defended its plan to organize the conference on the Holocaust, though it has yet to set a time or place. It also was unclear who might attend.
Ahmadinejad has been issuing the highly inflammatory comments about Israel and the Holocaust in conjunction with the country's deepening confrontation with the West over its nuclear activities. The United States and its allies accuse Iran of seeking nuclear weapons. Tehran says the program is designed for electricity generation, and is within its right under the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty.
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