In point of fact. people and governments have repeatedly demonstrated a shocking capacity to ignore or deny desperate need when it is inconvenient to respond. Millions of the Jews who died in boxcars and death camps at the hands of Nazis were victims of indifference. as well as deliberate murder. Civilized. democratic governments (including the United States denied Jews visas and refuge even after the "Final Solution" had been revealed and the existence of the death camps became known. The appeals for help were simply Ignored. The same sort of passive acceptance of genocide characterized the worlds response to Pot Pots slaughter of 2 to 3 million Cambodians. the starvation of Ethiopians in Mengistus forced relocations. and the Chinese governments sustained assault on Tibetans.