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Thread #25001   Message #292693
Posted By: Lox
07-Sep-00 - 07:59 AM
Thread Name: BS: lost forever
Subject: RE: BS: lost forever
Hmmmmm.

The Incas, Aztecs, Sioux, Navajoe, Blackfoot etc might have something to say, as would most of west Africa between the 17th and 19th centuries. Australian Aborigines , The soviet unions "disappeared", not to mention the "disappeared" in Chile might have something to say too.

Check out the Dutch East India Company's record in what was the Dutch East Indies (Jakarta, Timor, Banda etc). Check out Pol pots record in Cambodia, or Suharto's record in East Timor.

I take nothing away from the tragedy that was the nazi holocaust, I am adding to it, by pointing out that that type of thing has been going on for hundreds of years. In truth, of course, it's been going on for thousands of years, and will probably happen again. As I pointed out before, an innocent man is about to take the electric chair for being a good writer in the US.

I will finish though with a quote which puts the second world war into perspective.

"...not all the victims were jews, but all the jews were victims..."