<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->-The Nazis were losers so the victors (Anglosphere+Russia) got a chance to simultaneously write history and divert attention from their own killings by highlighting the Nazi murders.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->In the movie 'Enigma' (yes, the Enigma machine that recently some famous American - can't imagine anyone but Bush to blunder so recklessly - decided that the Americans had deciphered - Mwahahahaha; in reality it appears to have been the Brits with Polish help) they showed how a genocide of Poles (Katyn massacre?) by Russia's communists was discovered by the Brits but hidden away from the public during WWII.
Not until war was declared against communism later on did the Brits decide they should make it public. How handy, being able to produce that sensationalist news of a massacre - though decades old by now - during the cold war time.
What always amazes me is the extent to which nations/peoples that committed genocide go to hide their crime sometime <i>after</i> the event, when during the same they took great and vocal pride in effecting it.
You can see islamic hysterians (Irfan Habib was it?) trying to explain that madevil islamic historians were exaggerating about the large-scale massacres of Dharmic kafirs in their historic records. You can see ustashe-apologists and communistics try to reduce the number of Serbians massacred from btw 1 and 2 mill down to a 30,000. They were unable to reduce this further.
The Armenian genocide is denied by the perpetrators. That's as expected, since islamists of this age (who feel they have to live up to the public expectation of conscience and so don't want to gloat about it in public anymore) aren't known to tell the truth. But at least christians elsewhere choose to mention the Armenian genocide.
Rwanda can be admitted to after the fact. Sudan will come to light in its full measure after the fact. Congo too.
The Kurdish genocides and persecutions by Iraqis, Turks, Iranians,... is ignored; because no one appears to care either way about that unfortunate people.
But what bothers me no end is how barely no one (barring the Hindu, who won't count for listing his own misery) recognises or acknowledges the 3 million Bangladeshis who were murdered in a ghastly ghastly manner in 1971. Of which 80% were Hindu and the majority of the remaining 20% were Buddhist. But is TSP getting any flack for it? Oh no. Because TSP is America's best pet, America will not recognise the genocide of Bangladeshi Dharmics. Because America gave moral support (and more? - there definitely was some US ship sent out symbolically to encourage their paki team) to TSP in carrying out the genocide, they will never recognise it.
But I think the reasons for the continued non-acknowledgement are more sinister than that. When the powers that be finally acknowledge a genocide, it will be when they have no more reason to go after the victim population/no more reason to hide it. However, in the Hindu case, the situation is left open. This can only be on purpose.
Not until war was declared against communism later on did the Brits decide they should make it public. How handy, being able to produce that sensationalist news of a massacre - though decades old by now - during the cold war time.
What always amazes me is the extent to which nations/peoples that committed genocide go to hide their crime sometime <i>after</i> the event, when during the same they took great and vocal pride in effecting it.
You can see islamic hysterians (Irfan Habib was it?) trying to explain that madevil islamic historians were exaggerating about the large-scale massacres of Dharmic kafirs in their historic records. You can see ustashe-apologists and communistics try to reduce the number of Serbians massacred from btw 1 and 2 mill down to a 30,000. They were unable to reduce this further.
The Armenian genocide is denied by the perpetrators. That's as expected, since islamists of this age (who feel they have to live up to the public expectation of conscience and so don't want to gloat about it in public anymore) aren't known to tell the truth. But at least christians elsewhere choose to mention the Armenian genocide.
Rwanda can be admitted to after the fact. Sudan will come to light in its full measure after the fact. Congo too.
The Kurdish genocides and persecutions by Iraqis, Turks, Iranians,... is ignored; because no one appears to care either way about that unfortunate people.
But what bothers me no end is how barely no one (barring the Hindu, who won't count for listing his own misery) recognises or acknowledges the 3 million Bangladeshis who were murdered in a ghastly ghastly manner in 1971. Of which 80% were Hindu and the majority of the remaining 20% were Buddhist. But is TSP getting any flack for it? Oh no. Because TSP is America's best pet, America will not recognise the genocide of Bangladeshi Dharmics. Because America gave moral support (and more? - there definitely was some US ship sent out symbolically to encourage their paki team) to TSP in carrying out the genocide, they will never recognise it.
But I think the reasons for the continued non-acknowledgement are more sinister than that. When the powers that be finally acknowledge a genocide, it will be when they have no more reason to go after the victim population/no more reason to hide it. However, in the Hindu case, the situation is left open. This can only be on purpose.