Genocide denial is the attempt to deny or minimize statements of the scale and severity of an incidence of genocide.
The Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas argued that only "a few hundred thousand" Jews were murdered in the Holocaust in a book he published. He claimed that the Jews brought this on themselves, and that Zionists had collaborated with the Nazis in order to send more Jews to Israel. The government of Pakistan has denied the 1971 Bangladesh horrors that occured under Pakistan’s rule. During the Bangladesh Liberation War, Pakistani estimates were originally only 26,000 dead and 2 million refugees, but a recent Oxford historian declared that there were no more than 50,000 to 100,000 dead from all sides in the war. Pakistan has never owned up to the atroctities that took place during the war to this day. Ten million fled to India; 30 million left the cities and went to the villages. The Pakistani president called for 3 million dead. 200,00 women were systematically raped in camps, and the atrocities go on.
40 years later, the government of Pakistan has still not owned up to the crimes, or recieved any legal punishments for the events. Many still deny that the events happened at all, including the Pakistan government. Reporters who have recognized the event are labelled “enemy reporters”. Other genocides that have been ignored and covered up include the mass killing of Tutsis in Rwanda in 1994. On 6 April 1994, the president of Rwanda, a Hutu, was killed in a missile attack on his aircraft. This led to the murder of the prime minister, who was a Tutsi. Members of the Hutu majority hunted down and massacred at least half a million of the Tutsi minority in a slaughter where as much as three-quarters of the Tutsi population of that country.
Genocides like these only occur because the former nations and governments did not recognize the crimes, and the world did not punish them for their crimes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genocide_denial https://www.international.ucla.edu/lai/article/21398 https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/genocide-us-cant-remember-bangladesh-cant-forget-180961490/
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The interesting thing about these genocides is that people know that they happened, and while it was going did nothing leading to the slaughter of many people. People in the United States knew about the death camps even before they Joined the war, and did nothing, but due to eventually fighting a war with the perpetrators of the genocide and finding out that there were 6,000,000 people who had died. The shear number is enough for the who world to recognize that the needed to prevent another genocide. More genocides however happened and once gain the countries did nothing because they are chicken and were scared to mess up potential alliance leading to the death of many people which was preventable.
ReplyDeleteI think this is really interesting. Here in the US we have not taken accountability for the massacre of Native Americans. No culture wants to be held responsible for the most inhumane crimes of their past. That however should not stop other countries from pressuring them to own up to their mistakes. I think we need to be pressuring countries like Turkey to acknowledge what happened. This will bring more accountability into the world and show that you can not get away with such actions.
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