No. There is a point. Killing lots of people because they are enemies of the
regime is state terrorism.
It qualifies as simple mass murder.
Killing lots of people, or even forcibly displacing them, because they are
Bosnians or Croats, not Serbs is at best ethnic cleansing and at worst
genocide.
This (clearly) rises to the level of a Crime Against Humanity.
Saddam Hussein's regieme has committed massacres against Kurds and Shi'i Arabs
in the South. To the best of my knowledge these do not seemed to be part of
a program of ethnic depopulation. Thus, no crime of ethic cleansing or
genocide _per se_.
However, the government does face a strategic problem with southern marshland.
My several-year-old best knowledge was that it planned to drain the southern
swamps. This will directly eliminate the life-way of rural southern Shi'i
groups called "Marsh Arabs". This will eliminate an ancient way of life;
thus, it constitutes ethnocide.
However, the economic and military arguments for getting rid of the marshlands
are substantial. Any Iraqi regime might adopt a similar policy.
On Thursday 19 September 2002 09:44 pm, John D. Giorgis wrote:
> At 09:23 PM 9/19/2002 -0700 Doug wrote:
> >Could someone point me in the direction of an article that details how
> >Hussein is presently pursuing a policy of genocide similar to that
> >pursued by Milosevic?
>
> Two questions:
>
> 1) Do you consider US actions against Milosevic to have been justified?
>
> 2) Do you support the US having made said actions against Milosevic?
>
> Thanks.
>
> JDG
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