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Crimes against humanity get their own category precisely because it is so difficult for us to imagine they could actually happen. The genocides in Rwanda, Bosn
by mnemonicsloth 15y ago
Crimes against humanity get their own category precisely because it is so difficult for us to imagine they could actually happen.
The genocides in Rwanda, Bosnia, Cambodia, and Nazi Germany have these things in common: before the fact, a respectable consensus that reports of atrocities were farfetched; afterwards, shock and dismay that more wasn't done to stop the killing.
Given this history, aren't we better off keeping a low threshold of suspicion?
- tptacek 15y agoWhat happened in Rwanda was all the more monstrous because of how much evidence the world community ignored. What evidence is there here?
- malandrew 15y agoI've seen lots of photos related to this issue. The validity of all of them is always called into question, but given the sensitivity of this issue, I imagine that a lot is being done to maintain reasonable doubt without an investigation. Some facts are indisputable. Chinese executes more people per year than any other country. There is no accountability within the country for how these executions are carried, nor is there accountability to how they are carried out to international governing bodies. Compare how executions in the West are carried out versus China. I'd say there is more than enough evidence to warrant investigations into how these executions are carried out. I would like to see someone take all Chinese government statistics on issues like organ donors per capita, transplants performed per capita, etc. and see if they are out of line with what is seen in other countries. I wouldn't be surprised is Benford's Law could be applied to the data.