The second and third verses clearly deride our collective amnesia of the Holocaust.
"The final solution's back in style
We are the ones letting it ride"
So I would think Glen probably had a 90's genocide on his mind (Coil being released in 1997), possibly Rwanda 1994 seems likely, and by all means pertinent: there is no explanation for the world's failure to intervene in Rwanda. But I can only speculate. (Or this could be metaphorical, but I tend to doubt that.)
The second and third verses clearly deride our collective amnesia of the Holocaust.
"The final solution's back in style We are the ones letting it ride"
So I would think Glen probably had a 90's genocide on his mind (Coil being released in 1997), possibly Rwanda 1994 seems likely, and by all means pertinent: there is no explanation for the world's failure to intervene in Rwanda. But I can only speculate. (Or this could be metaphorical, but I tend to doubt that.)
I do agree the refrain harkens to Niemoeller's "First they came..." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_they_came
I find the first verse and the refrain especially haunting. And the music is phenomenal, of course.