Semantic gripe
Nov. 16th, 2007 12:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
I've noticed a tendency, even on PBS, to lump all sorts of nasty behavior under the title "genocide". Cambodia, for all the hell of the Khmer Rouge, was not genocide. I'm not sure that Darfur qualifies as genocide -- from this distance, it looks like a mix of religious pogrom and ethnic cleansing, where moving the subject people the hell out means more than killing them off wholesale.
Rwanda, that was genocide.
Rwanda, that was genocide.
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