Kevin wrote to the Forfar Dispatch to praise the work of Forfar Academy with the Holocaust Education Trust.
Dear Editor,
I was pleased to read in the school notes from Forfar Academy in the Forfar Dispatch of the excellent work being carried out by pupils and staff in Forfar, the North East of Scotland and also in the international community.
In particular I was very pleased to see that the Academy is continuing its commitment to working with the Holocaust Education Trust and its visits to Auschwitz. Such work is not only a reminder of some of the most awful events in history but is also an important way of emphasising the importance of human rights for all.
It is my hope that in a time of cuts in public expenditure such vital work can continue for many years. Sadly human rights abuses were not just a product of the pre second world war and second world war years, but were also a product of the political extremism of Nazism. Even more sadly in more recent years human rights abuses have continued in Rwanda, Cambodia and Bosnia.
Hopefully through the retelling of the events of the Holocaust a better world can be worked for, for all.
I wish Abbie Carnegie, Karlene Douglas and all the pupils and staff of Forfar Academy all the best in their efforts to promote the need for human rights for all.
