Originally Posted by
TBM-Legend
Thanks for the lecture on genocide. You are neither a lawyer or a human rights activist. My friend who prosecuted the Rawandan genocide does not agree with you...
That was closer to it, yeah, and I've never objected to calling that attempt at genocide just that: and the political rhetoric in Rwanda certainly matched that intention. You are wrong in your using that as a comparisons, but you are most welcome for the education, since you obviously needed it also.
Originally Posted by
NutLoose
hat is plain and simply extermination
No, it isn't, but it's still ugly as hell because it is war.
Sieges are a particularly brutal aspect of war that take what is bad about it and make it worse.
I suspect that once all of the dust settles and the shooting does stop, which it eventually will, what happend there in Mariupol will be entered into the list of war crimes that someone, or a bunch of someones, will have to answer for.
In simpler English for you Nutty: a horrible act can be an atrocity without being genocide.
I will now stop grinding that ax.