Memory and Conflict!- Why We Must Remember...

From Milan Kundera the Book of laughter and Forgetting  

"The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, its history. Then have somebody write new books, manufacture a new culture, invent a new history. Before long that nation will begin to forget what it is and what it was...The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting"