I'm do wonder why there isn't a single mention of this in @SamanthaJPower's 640pp book on the U.S. & genocide https://nyti.ms/2zhYLCu
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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
@thebafflermag, has written on the weird silence about the slaughter in books about young Obama's time in Indonesia.Show this thread -
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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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