A small number of protesters reportedly turned their backs on Mr Higgins as he addressed the current conflict in the Middle East
Protesters have been removed from a Holocaust memorial event during an address by President Michael D Higgins .
The president emphasised the importance of education in his address to prevent another such atrocity from happening.During that section of the speech, a small number of protesters reportedly turned their backs on Mr Higgins and were removed by security. "The current agreement must end the killing, but as a matter of urgency deliver the massive scale-up in humanitarian aid which is urgently needed to save more lives. It is important that all remaining hostages are released and that all phases of the agreement are fully implemented.
"What people could see at the opening of the gates of Auschwitz-Birkenau was not only the dead, the emaciated, they were confront with the consequences of something that had a complex design and history, a cruelty aimed at the extermination of the Jewish population of Europe... and with them were included other categories, the disabled, Romani, those of same sexual orientation, all defined as an other, to be eliminated," he said.
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