From: CurtAdams@aol.com
Date: Thu Apr 18 2002 - 15:56:39 MDT
In a message dated 4/18/02 14:47:20, bradbury@aeiveos.com writes:
>And one can compare thousands or tens of thousands of people
>killed in 911 vs. Yogoslavia with the millions that die from
>hunger and starvation every year or the tens of millions that
>die from "natural causes" every year. Creating a "proper"
>context for evaluating deaths is *not* an easy thing to do.
>You have to balance absolute counts with how difficult it
>may be to prevent each death.
The point is that "ethnic cleansing" refers to removing
(virtually) all people of an ethnicity from an area involuntarily.
It may be genocidal, or it may not.
I actually forgot the best example of a low death count cleansing,
which is the Croatian expulsion of Serbs from the disputed territories
in Croatia several years ago. Very few people died in that one, but
the Serbs were indeed disposessed. The international community was
disturbingly quiet over it, although since the war in Bosnia was going on
at the time there were distractions and there was a reluctance to admit
that some Serbs could be victims too. Groupism again - apparently people
have a hard time grasping person A is getting victimized while his distant
relative is victimizing 50 miles away and *both* activities are equally
wrong. Yes, I know that in this case the activities were not equally wrong,
but still...
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