“genocide” ? or mas killing ?
you may have heard about Ottoman Turk’s killings of Armenians during WWI.
i didn’t really know about it. i would have known more and better if i were an Armenian or Turkish…? looks like it’s a big issue for both sides if the killings should be recognized as "genocide" or simply as mass killings.
of course as you can guess, Turkey wouldn’t want it recognized as genocide because genocide is such a strong negative term.
no country wants to admit negative pasts as their responsibilities….
that’s how this world is.
that’s how "nations" are.
that’s how human beings are…
and sad thing is this is not something happened long long time ago. genocides have happened in our human’s modern history. for example, well-known Rwanda’s happened just about 15 years ago.
why would people try to clean the particular race/ethnic group/certain people….?
why can people become so brutal….?
why? why? why?
never can get convincing answers to these.
we will continue wondering why.
we will continue hating and killing each others…?
at least, i don’t wanna be one of those who do kill and who are killed.
*genocide*
"any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such: killing members of the group; causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life, calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; [and] forcibly transferring children of the group to another group." <UN Convention on Genocide/wikipedia>
