[PEN-L:66] Re: Re: Indigenous peoples and death by "accidental" infection

[Thomas Kruse <tkruse@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Regarding:

>Max Sawicky:
>>But other historical episodes which
>>culminated in the mass slaughter of
>>an ethnic group, a religious group,
>>or of a nation did not entail an
>>intent to bring about that result.
>>The enslavement of Africans in the
>>Western Hemisphere would seem to be
>>a good example.

What of intentions?  Doe it matter it the agressors intended to commit
genocide or not?  As a matter of historical record, sure.  But what about in
teaching history, trying to draw lessons?

I just finished Hegi's _Stones from the River_ and am puzzling over this.
(The book deal is the story of a dwarf, born c. 1900 in a small twon in
Germany on the Rhein, who lives through world wars, nazism, and the
aftermath.  Highly recommended.)

Tom

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