Senate President Nicolae Ciuca says that "the aggressive hate speech that always leads to division, intolerance and destruction" is being promoted again today, stressing that only compassion, tolerance and respect for life and human rights can be "the foundation for a world free of hate and cruelty."
"Today, we are once again witnessing the promotion of aggressive hate speech which always leads to division, intolerance and destruction. We have a duty to fight tirelessly against anti-Semitism, xenophobia and all forms of discrimination and extremist speech. Only compassion, tolerance and respect for life and human rights can be the foundation for a world free of hatred and cruelty," Ciolacu wrote on Facebook on Saturday, in a message sent in the context of the International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
According to the president of the Senate, this commemorative day is, every year, the occasion of a deep homage to all those who lost their lives, families, freedom and dignity in the most tragic period of the last century.
He also recalls that Romania this month marks 83 years since the pogrom in Bucharest in January 1941, "a deep wound in our national consciousness."