Human Rights and Government Intervention

Elie Wiesel, Holocaust survivor and Nobel Laureate, spoke to the National Press Club on the topic of "urgency". He spoke about government intervention in regard to human rights and when it was appropriate for a nations to intervene on behalf of citizens in other nations when human rights are being clearly violated. He said that if western European nations had intervened in Nazi Germany, millions of lives would have been saved. Following his prepared remarks he took questions from the audience.