Whenever people talk about the weather, they usually want to talk about other things - Oscar Wilde.
Stalin killed millions, so did Mao, Pot Pot, Hitler, Mengistu...
All those people had one thing in common, they believed that their ideas and power were more important than people's lives. Whenever someone believes that their ideas are so powerful and "right" they always believe that they have the right to kill those who disagree.
We can all learn from Gandhi and Mandela and Ken Saro Wiwa. Sometimes there is no alternative but violence, but it should never become an end in itself.
Most of my family was wiped out in Poland in the War, the only people who survived were the ones who made it to Israel/Palestine.