Re: The Use of the Term 'Genocide'

[Paul Flewers <paul.flewers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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