I don’t know if your correspondent Tom Glare (Letters January 26) attended the Holocaust Memorial Day event at St Andrew’s Church on January 27, but if he did I am sure he would agree how moving the silent vigil, exhibition, readings and music were.

In fact, the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust was set up in 2001 and has always been to mark not just the millions murdered under Nazi persecution but subsequent genocides in Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia and Darfur.

Genocide, the deliberate destruction of all or part of a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, was recognised as a crime under international law by the United Nations in 1946.

The situations in Syria and Iraq have not been designated genocides by the UN and are complex conflicts with many victims.

Amnesty International has campaigned for years demanding that governments bring an end to the crimes against humanity in those countries.

As we know, hundreds of thousands have disappeared, have been killed, tortured, and forced to leave their homes.

They will not be forgotten by Amnesty members in Minehead.

Jill Walmsley, Amnesty International Minehead Group.