SV: The Use of the Term 'Genocide'

["Anders Püschel" <ahp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The Jews weren't the only victims of German (by no means only "Nazi") genocide
during WWII. The Slavs and the Roma (Gypsies) were exterminated on the same
racist grounds as were the jews.

Anders Püschel
ahp@xxxxxxxxxx

-----Ursprungligt meddelande-----
Från: Paul Flewers <paul.flewers@xxxxxxxxxx>
Till: marxism@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <marxism@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Datum: den 23 oktober 1999 12:32
Ämne: Re: The Use of the Term 'Genocide'


>Comunistes de Catalunya wrote: < The Budapest government (a puppet
>government of the USA-Nato) has just announced that this winter it is
>prohibiting the passage of Russian gas for Yugoslavia. This is a
>criminal act which forms part of the continued crime of genocide by the
>USA-Nato and their puppets against the people of Yugoslavia. >
>
>To use the term 'genocide', which means the extermination or attempted
>extermination of an entire people, in this instance is incorrect.
>However much we condemn the policies of the US government and its
>minions as inhumane, I do not think that they are intending to wipe out
>the population of Yugoslavia. Likewise, I think it was wrong to use the
>term, as some have, in relation to the treatment of Albanians in Kosovo,
>or in relation to the East Timorese, however bad their experiences were.
>
>I do not think that any of these cases can compare with the real case of
>genocide that the Nazis carried out against the Jews in the Second World
>War.
>
>Paul F
>