I think our grandchildren will look back in some amazement at this period, where we allow Idi Amin to die in his bed, and allow Pol Pot to die after killing 1.7 million. -Geoffrey Robertson

 

I think our grandchildren will look back in some amazement at this period, where we allow Idi Amin to die in his bed, and allow Pol Pot to die after killing 1.7 million.


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This quote is just one of 6 total Geoffrey Robertson quotes in our collection. Geoffrey Robertson is known for saying 'I think our grandchildren will look back in some amazement at this period, where we allow Idi Amin to die in his bed, and allow Pol Pot to die after killing 1.7 million.' as well as some of the following quotes.

He was the first to want to make poverty history, and his... reforms came to pass centuries after he made the suggestions, ... And to see the event through his eyes provides, I think, an important corrective to those three strands of history that have, for one reason or another, ignored or deplored the trial of the king.

Geoffrey Robertson

I think our grandchildren will look back in some amazement at this period, where we allow Idi Amin to die in his bed, and allow Pol Pot to die after killing 1.7 million.

Geoffrey Robertson

Our forefathers were involved in the civil war, and it was the crucible period where the democratic values that we believe in today, and we assert against the terrorists, were first forged.

Geoffrey Robertson

They would never have had the courage to carry through on that belief if it hadn't been kind of a fusion of these two great motives.

Geoffrey Robertson