The director of the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial called on the world to protest ethnic cleansing by Serbs in Kosovo, but added that comparisons should not be made to the Nazi genocide of Jews. “Suffering is suffering whenever it occurs and must be denounced,” Avner Shalev told the Associated Press on Monday. He added that the Holocaust resulted from Germany’s desire to “liquidate all the Jews in the world,” while Serb actions in Kosovo are part of an “ethnic conflict over a piece of land.”
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