Dan Koenig wrote:

>I agree with DDeBar that the term genocide is being used a bit too freely. It
>would be a novel form of genocide to allow a people's women, older men, and
>young boys to flee with their lives.

I have to disagree. Anyhow, these people are not being "allowed" to flee
with their lives, they are being driven out at gun-point.

Australia has a similar history of genocide against the aboriginal
inhabitants. They were not all killed, in many places they were rounded up
and moved thousands of miles across the country to reserves. Their culture
being tied to their land this was clearly genocide, cultural genocide at
least.

In Tasmania, to our shame, this genocide was at its most efficient. After
many years of war and attrition, the remaining full-blood Tasmanian
Aborigines were all shipped to a small island in Bass Strait. Every man,
woman and child of them. Here most of them eventually perished in exile.
The last remaining 2 full-blood Tasmanian Aborigines were eventually
permitted to return to the Tasmanian mainland to live out the rest of their
lives as curiousities. Truganinni was the last to perish.


>That was not exactly the approach taken by Hitler.

Hitler used industrial methods, but he began with deportation. The Serbian
military uses the old-fashioned way. The object is the same - to get rid of
an entire people. Genocide, pure and simple.

Bill Bartlett
Bracknell Tas.