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What would be an example in the western world of a genocide (not war) where more (or comparable numbers of) people died? The part about "in the western world"
by ido 14y ago
What would be an example in the western world of a genocide (not war) where more (or comparable numbers of) people died?
The part about "in the western world" is pretty significant, as people identify more with people that they perceive to be more like themselves. That's probably a big part of the reason why we don't hear as often about the large 20th century genocides in China & Africa for example.
- riffraff 14y agoIIRC, the armenian genocide involved between 0.6 an 1.8 million deaths, was committed in europe wiping out about 20% of a whole ethnic group. Which also happen to be white skinned christians, so not even very far removed from the western person stereotype. Hitler famously reasoned that in 50 years nobody would care about the jews, as at that time, already few remembered the armen genocide.