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How do you know that? I'm genuinely curious

causality0 6y ago
Look up almost any genocide or mass killing of the 20th century, even the late 20th century, and see how nobody outside the area gave a damn. Pre-WW2, you've got millions exterminated in the Congo Free State. The Ottoman Empire killed a million Armenians, 500,000 Greeks, 400,000 Assyrians. The British starved five million Indians to death in 1900 and two million Bengalis in 1943 and nobody gave a single solitary shit. Post WW2 it gets worse. Two million people in Cambodia, 700,000 people in Indonesia, 550,000 in Rwanda, 500,000 in Angola, millions in China during the Cultural Revolution, 225,000 in Bosnia, 300,000 in Uganda, a million Bangladeshis in 1971. The list goes on and on and on and the fraction that prompted any kind of forceful international response is pathetically small.
- mrjin 6y ago
  I'm just wondering what kind of genocide can make Uyghur population in Xinjiang grow from 5M to 25M?
  - blackrock 6y ago
    LOL. It looks like you got downvoted for pointing out an inconvenient truth.
  - TeeMassive 6y ago
    The measures that are making the news now didn't really reach their peak until Xi was in power. Also, the Chinese are known to flood with ethnic Han people recalcitrant territories they conquered.
    - wojciii 6y ago
      All this has been used by the Soviet Union before and I'm sure we can find a guide book on suppressing satellite states in some KGB archive or perhaps in Germany (copy lent to their friends in stasi). It sounds to me that the Chinese are using this here.
- TeeMassive 6y ago
  Wouldn't it be a good idea to stop?
  - frongpik 6y ago
    I bet that most dictators are addicted to power over other people. They can't just stop.
- sofixa 6y ago
  That's not entirely true. Congo - when the atrocities came out, the king was forced to cede it to Belgium and the terror more or less stopped. The Ottoman genocides were during the Great War, and even their allies ( Germany ) were concerned and issued proclamations, let alone their enemies ( Russia) which used it for recruitment. Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia ended with wars/peacekeepers to topple the genocidal governments.

Look up almost any genocide or mass killing of the 20th century, even the late 20th century, and see how nobody outside the area gave a damn. Pre-WW2, you've got millions exterminated in the Congo Free State. The Ottoman Empire killed a million Armenians, 500,000 Greeks, 400,000 Assyrians. The British starved five million Indians to death in 1900 and two million Bengalis in 1943 and nobody gave a single solitary shit. Post WW2 it gets worse. Two million people in Cambodia, 700,000 people in Indonesia, 550,000 in Rwanda, 500,000 in Angola, millions in China during the Cultural Revolution, 225,000 in Bosnia, 300,000 in Uganda, a million Bangladeshis in 1971. The list goes on and on and on and the fraction that prompted any kind of forceful international response is pathetically small.

mrjin 6y ago
I'm just wondering what kind of genocide can make Uyghur population in Xinjiang grow from 5M to 25M?
- blackrock 6y ago
  LOL. It looks like you got downvoted for pointing out an inconvenient truth.
- TeeMassive 6y ago
  The measures that are making the news now didn't really reach their peak until Xi was in power. Also, the Chinese are known to flood with ethnic Han people recalcitrant territories they conquered.
  - wojciii 6y ago
    All this has been used by the Soviet Union before and I'm sure we can find a guide book on suppressing satellite states in some KGB archive or perhaps in Germany (copy lent to their friends in stasi). It sounds to me that the Chinese are using this here.
TeeMassive 6y ago
Wouldn't it be a good idea to stop?
- frongpik 6y ago
  I bet that most dictators are addicted to power over other people. They can't just stop.
sofixa 6y ago
That's not entirely true. Congo - when the atrocities came out, the king was forced to cede it to Belgium and the terror more or less stopped. The Ottoman genocides were during the Great War, and even their allies ( Germany ) were concerned and issued proclamations, let alone their enemies ( Russia) which used it for recruitment. Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia ended with wars/peacekeepers to topple the genocidal governments.