Genocide

 

See: "A Formula for Genocide" by John Corry…American SpectatorSept, 1998

See: "After the Genocide" by Philip Gourevitch.The New Yorker Dec 18,1995

 

"Agememnon: "My dear menelaus, why are you so chary of taking men's lives? Did the Trojans treat you as handsomely as that when they stayed in your house? No; we are not going to leave a single one of them alive, down to the babies in their mothers' wombs-not even they must live. The whole people must be wiped out of existence, and none be left to think of them and shed a tear."

-Homer, Iliad

 

"A mathematical calculation of Rwanda’s national suicide makes the speed of any other recorded catastrophe or single act of war pale by comparison.

No system of genocide ever devised has been more efficient: The daily kill rate was five times that of the Nazi death camps…..The daily death rate averaged well more than 11,500 for two months, with surges as high as 45,000. During this peak, one murder was committed every two seconds of every minute, of every hour, for days: an affliction befitting the Apocalypse. Transfixed and aghast, the rest of the world watched, fiddled, then hid its eyes and did nothing."

Phillip Gourevitch

(ed note: This was done mostly with machetes…also the killers are now living happily without remorse or regret in their former victims homes….in many cases receiving western aid)…

"Tibet is another matter. As an independent state or even culture, it is probably doomed. China is currently implementing what the Dalai Lama calls its "final solution" for Tibet-an openly racist policy of state-sponsored Chinese emigration to the area and forced "assimilation" (the word used in the Chinese press is hanhua,literally "to make Chinese") of what is left of the Tibetan people. Tibet's only hope lies in the extraordinary efforts of the Dalai Lama, Tibet's priest-king, and his followers in exile in Dharmasala, India, to internationalize their struggle. Combined with continuing Chinese blunders, it is possible (though not likely) that global concern will raise the costs to China of its obstinate and destructive behaviour. Meanwhile, Sinophiles at many foreign academic institutions and ministries of foreign affairs continue to advise their political leaders that Tibet has always been a part of China, which is simply not so."

                                        Chalmers Johnson

                                        Blowback

 

the genocide of the Romani, or Gypsies, in the very same process of the Holocaust (which Ian Hancock correctly argues "deserves acknowledgement far beyond that which it now receives," especially by the Jewish establishment);

the Armenian genocide, both in its own monumental right and then also as a prototype of genocide that many scholars see as the precursor, and in a sense also as a facilitator, of the Holocaust;

too-little-known information about the genocides of so many indigenous peoples-the native Americans;

genocide in Nigeria-Biafra;

the ethnic cleansing and genocide that occurred in the former Yugoslavia throughout the first half of the 1990s;

a stunning historical analysis of the Atlantic slave trade that argues-the first time for as a genocide scholar-for its constituting genocide;

the Ukrainian famine genocide;

and more, making it clear to all people that genocide has been, is, and will continue to be the fate of many different peoples-and one must be careful that even legitimate considerations of the unique-ness of a given genocide (such as the archetypal event of the Holocaust) not blind us to the enormity of the problem of mass murders of many different peoples, especially toward our collective future on this planet.

(foreword by Israel W. Charny to "Is the Holocaust Unique?: Perspectives on Comparative Genocide" by Alan S. Rosenbaum

 

"By the time we had finished with them they were only the shells of men. There was nothing left in them except sorrow for what they had done, and love of Big Brother. It was touching to see how they loved him."

-George Orwell, 1984

 

For the great future of Revolution, his deep and warm love embraces all of us at once! How can we describe his virtue and sacrifice for the people and the homeland! Let us keep his love deep in our hearts and follow him to the victory of revolution! Even if we die a billion times, we must be determined to follow him without any hesitation."

-North Korean Junior High school textbook

 

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Book: "A problem from Hell: America & the Age of Genocide" by Samantha Power

Book: "Get Em All! Kill 'Em!: Genocide, Terrorism, Righteous  Communities" by Bruce Wilshire

Book: "Death By Government" by R.J. Rummel

Book: "Is The Holocaust Unique?" by Alan S. Rosenbaum

Book: "The Nazi Persecution of the Gypsies" by Guenter Lewy

Book: "The Holocaust Encyclopedia" Ed. by Walter Laqeur

Book: "The Origins Of The Final Solution" by Christopher R. Browning

Book: "The Burning Tigris: The Armenian Genocide and America's Response" by Peter Balakian

Book: "Final Solutions: Mass Killing and Genocide in the 20th Century" by Benjamin A. Valentino

Book: "Fires of Hatred: Ethnic Cleansing in Twentieth-Century Europe"

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