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First, programmatic slaughter of 500k+ Indonesians on *political grounds doesn't meet strict legal definition of genocide in '48 convention.
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So on those very legalistic grounds, no genocide. The killing of ethnic Chinese yes, but not of PKI members who were majority of victims.
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You'd think this wld rate at least a graf in a 640pp book on U.S. & genocide, if just to show limits of legal definition of genocide. But no
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Another reason: ambitious Americans prefer not to mention any genocide or atrocity in which Washington had a complicit or abetting role.
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Chris Bray, writing in
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You'd think the genocide in East Timor w/ btw 100k-200k victims wld be covered in a 640pp book on U.S. & genocide. Instead: One sentence!
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And it defines U.S. role as "looking away" rather than actively abetting and permitting the slaughter. See this– https://www.cogitatiopress.com/politicsandgovernance/article/view/272 …
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My 2009 article on Samantha Power and the Weaponization of
#HumanRights:https://www.counterpunch.org/2009/09/10/samantha-power-and-the-weaponization-of-human-rights/ …Show this thread
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It's fully covered in her book after that, "A Solution From Hell"
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Somehow, I think you aren't really wondering about that.
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I cover in detail in http://tinyurl.com/ycpywylj . Power omits Indo, but covers Cambodia while acknowledging political nature of some killings.
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It's also important to note the absolute understatement in
@nytimes story. The US did not "stand by," it conspired with Indo Army officials.
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Also notably absent: the US-led UN sanctions on Iraq, which former UN official Denis Halliday called genocidal.http://news.cornell.edu/stories/1999/09/former-un-official-says-sanctions-against-iraq-amount-genocide …
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On the cutting-room floor no doubt. 640 pp. is okay, but 640 1/2 pp. would just be garish.
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