Night is a novel written by Elie Wiesel, recalling the horrors that he experienced as a prisoner in Nazi concentration camps. One of the main themes of the book is how the lack of outspokenness leads to the continuous torture of the Jewish people by the Nazis. The lack of voice against terrorist acts leads to the continuation of such acts, and the repetition of similar events in the future. This is a problem because a lack of outspokenness about terrorism decreases the awareness of the issue, so people don't know how to take action against terrorism or how to prevent or fix situations where terrorists do strike. This idea was demonstrated in Night; nobody had the courage to speak out against the Nazis, so the horrible acts they were committing were allowed to continue.
A modern example of the unawareness of terrorism is in the Rwandan Genocide, which occurred between April 1994 and June 1994. In this time, 800,000 Rwandans were massacred. The United Nations failed and other world organizations failed to direct any attention toward the issue. By the time they decided to take action, almost a million people had been killed and the genocide had done most of its damage. This another real-world example of how not speaking out and giving terrorism enough attention can lead to the unnecessary massacre of hundreds of thousands of people.
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