President of the European Council Donald Tusk has stated the international community should not remain silent when the strong attack the weak, and when innocent people are killed.
“Common silence and common prayer are indeed appropriate in such a place and time. But silence and prayers by themselves will not be enough if we want to avoid the great moral danger, which was, and still is, present in our collective experience,” he said at the event dedicated to the 75th anniversary of the tragedy of Babyn Yar victims in Kyiv.
According to him, “the moral danger after all, is never that one might become a victim but that one might be a perpetrator or a bystander.”
“This is why, when we stand in silence at this mass grave, we need to remember that it is our daily duty to cry out at the top of our voice, and to act – always – when innocent people are killed, when the strong attack the weak, when children become the target of warplanes and rockets,” Tusk said.
