At the heights of genocide people of opposing communities have tried to help and protect each other. Yet formal resistance has remained rather weak and half-hearted. In fact, resistance, has remained the agendas of peace groups or citizen s initiatives with the state providing only rhetorical or symbolic support. In fact, at a certain period of time the perpetrator and the witness may also turn into victims for the memories of genocide haunt them ever after. At times the perpetrators of genocide strive to wipe out the memory from public mind.
Memories thus have a very important role in the reconstruction of history.
This reconstruction is necessary to situate the horrors and evils of this crime that has haunted and daunted the human civilisation. Keeping the above in perspective an international conference on Genocide is going to be held in Dhaka in January 2002, with a consultative meeting in January 2001.