genocidi e mass murder
Citation (APA): somin, i. (2017). genocidi e mass murder [Kindle Android version]. Retrieved from Amazon.com
Parte introduttiva
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Is "Genocide" Really Worse than "Mere" Mass Murder?
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the issues raised by the congressional resolution that seeks to condemn Turkey's World War I-era mass murder of its Armenian citizens as "genocide."
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x ERA GENOCIDIO?
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Back in 1994-95, there was a similar debate over the question of whether the mass murder of Rwandan Tutsi by Hutu nationalists counted as genocide.
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x PRECEDENTE
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Clinton Administration and others took the position that it was not genocide
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reduce political pressure
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Today, there are arguments about the question of whether there is a genocide in Darfur.
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x CASO DI OGGI
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considered worse
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people were slaughtered without any justification.
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kill an innocent person
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moderately affluent peasant "kulak" (as in Stalin's
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member of the wrong social class (as in Pol Pot's
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opponent of the government
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Sometimes, it is argued that genocide is worse than other types of mass murder because it deprives the world of valuable cultural diversity,
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x UN ARGOM CONTRO IL GENOCIDIO
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other types of mass murders also destroy diversity and other cultural resources. For example, Pol Pot's decimation of Cambodia's educated classes surely did severe damage to Cambodia's culture. Stalin's extermination of Russians active in political movements other than his own certainly undermined valuable diversity in that country, and so on.
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x DIVERSITÁ E MASS MURDER
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I suggest that both domestic and international law should eliminate the crime of genocide and replace it with a more general crime of mass murder,
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x CONCLUSIONE GIURIDICA
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it would eliminate the excuse for inaction created by claims that a particular instance of mass murder doesn't qualify as genocide.
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x UN VANTAGGIO
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UPDATE:
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In some genocides, there is no chance that the killers will succeed in eradicating the entire ethnic group in question, or even a large fraction of it.
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x ALTRO DIFETTO DELL SRGOMENTO DIVERSITÁ
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Pol Pot also targeted Cambodia's Chinese minority for extermination. There was never any chance that this would result in the destruction of the Chinese contribution to world culture,
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Yet it was clearly genocide under the current international law definition thereof,
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The International Law of Genocide and the Soviet Terror Famine of the 1930s:
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In his classic study, The Harvest of Sorrow, historian Robert Conquest estimates that as many as 14 million rural people may have died because the Soviet government confiscated their land and food supplies.
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x CARESTIE STALINIANE
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the Ukrainians claim that this mass murder counts as genocide because Stalin specifically targeted Ukrainian peasant
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x RUSSI VS UCRAINI: GENCIDIO VS MASS MURDER
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The Russian parliament, by contrast, claims that Stalin was an equal opportunity mass murderer, targeting Russians, Ukrainians, and others alike.
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International law considers mass murder to be genocide only if it is the result of an "intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such."
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x LEGGE INTERNAZIONALE
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I don't see why Stalin and his henchmen somehow become less immoral if they killed millions of innocent people for "economic" reasons rather than for racial or ethnic ones.
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x MORALITÀ
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the international law definition of genocide may have been crafted to exclude mass murders targeting political or economic groups precisely because the Soviet bloc insisted on it.
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x IL BLOCCO SOVIETICO NN C È PIÙ
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Crimean Tatars),
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GRUPPO ETNICO PERSEG DAI COM
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Stalin apparently wanted to make sure that they weren't covered by the international law of genocide. If so, this is another example of the pernicious influence of nondemocratic states on international human rights law,
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x IL DIFETTO DEI DIRITTI UMANI
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There is little doubt that Stalin's main objective was to achieve the collectivization of agriculture by destroying the class of private landowning farmers - regardless of ethnicity.
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x RICORDIAMO LE MOTIVAZ DI STALIN
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many Georgians
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On the other hand, Stalin, like other Russian and Soviet rulers, feared Ukrainian nationalism, since the Ukrainians were the Soviet empire's largest minority group.
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x E METTIAMOCI LA PAURA X GLIBUCRAINI
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Is Genocide Worse than Other Mass Murder
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"Immutable" Characteristics?
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race and ethnicity.
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First, the current international law definition of genocide is not in fact limited to immutable characteristics. It includes targeting of victims based on religion, which is most certainly not immutable.
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x ANCHE LA RELIGIONE. XCHÈ
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communist regimes
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class origins.
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Obviously, you can't do anything to change the fact that your parents were "bourgeois" or "kulaks."
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x ORIGINE DI CLASSE
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too late to change
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For example, my great-grandfather was arrested by the NKVD (as the KGB was then called) in the 1930s for having attended speeches by Leon Trotsky years before. At the time he went to the speeches, such attendance was not only legal but actually encouraged by the communist government, since Trotsky was a high-ranking Party leader.
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x INTROSPEZIONE
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such attendance became a crime punishable by a term in a Gulag (which often resulted in death). There was no way that my great-grandfather could have foreseen this
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why the mutable-immutable distinction should carry any moral weight.
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Killing a person because of his political affiliations wrong; so is killing a person because of his race or ethnicity. I don't see why the latter is somehow more wrong than the former merely because political affiliations can be changed and racial ones can't.
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x ETICA
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If future technological developments allow people to rewrite their DNA and thereby change their race, would racially-based mass murder become less reprehensible than it is today? I think not.
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x ESPERIMENTO MENTALE
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The 75th Anniversary of Stalin's Terror Famine and the Genocide-Mass Murder Distinction:
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Cathy Young,
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Stalin's terror famine of the 1930s.
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6 to 10 million peasants
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dispute between the Russia and Ukrainian governments.
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Russians do not deny that millions of people were deliberately starved
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denying the "genocide" charge.
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"kulaks" who were considered obstacles to Stalin's plans.
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Moreover, given that Kulak and class enemy status was largely determined by family background
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x FAMIGLIA
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there are clearly cases where Soviet policy could be considered genocide under the international law definition thereof. Examples include Stalin's deportation of the Crimean Tatars and other defined ethnic groups from the Crimea. This led to thousands of deaths, and clearly targeted the Tatars on ethnic grounds
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x CRIMEA
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A New Record for Mass Murder?
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Frank Dikötter, a Hong Kong-based historian, said he found that during the time that Mao was enforcing the Great Leap Forward in 1958, in an effort to catch up with the economy of the Western world, he was responsible for overseeing “one of the worst catastrophes the world has ever known”.
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x L ACCUSA A MAO
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1958 to 1962,
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x 4 ANNI
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At least 45 million people were worked, starved or beaten to death in China over these four years…
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Mr Dikötter is the only author to have delved into the Chinese archives since they were reopened four years ago.
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x ARCHIVI
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It was like [the Cambodian communist dictator] Pol Pot’s genocide multiplied 20 times over,”
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x 20 POL POT
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If Dikotter’s figures are correct, this makes Mao by far the greatest mass murderer in world history, surpassing the death tolls “achieved” by Stalin and Hitler.
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x RECORD
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The first (abortive) Soviet effort at collectivization in the early 1920s led to several million deaths, while Stalin’s successful resumption of the effort in the early 1930s caused 7 to 14 million more, according to Robert Conquest’s study.
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x LENIN STALIN
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The previous Soviet experience made the consequences of going down this road clear, and thereby ensured that the Chinese leaders could not have had any reasonable doubts about the likely effects of their actions.
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x MAO PEGGIO DI LENIN E STALIN POICHÈ AVEVA VIL LORO ESEMPIO
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Jasper Becker’s Hungry Ghosts and the Black Book of Communism.
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ALTRI LIBRI CHE NE PARLANMO
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Certainly, it has not received even a tiny fraction of the attention accorded to the Holocaust or even the smaller mass murder of the Armenians by the Turks (which has been the subject of extensive debate in Congress and elsewhere).
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x SPROPRZIONI
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In Praise of Genocide Published by Steve Landsburg
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genocide is the least objectionable form of mass murder— for
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x TESI
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it leaves no mourners.
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Other things being equal, meaningless deaths are best clustered among people who care about each other.
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x ARGOMENTO
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I’m pretty sure I prefer the home invader who wipes out a family of five over the serial killer who takes four lives at random, leaving four devastated spouses and twelve grieving children. And likewise I prefer the mass murderer who wipes out an extended “family” of five million to the one who kills, say, four and a half million at random.
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x INTROSPEZIONE
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less misery
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The countervailing argument is that when you destroy an ethnic group, you also destroy a culture.
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x CONTROARGOMENTO
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But as the world stands today, I suspect that cultures are worth very little at the margin (that is, we could stand to lose any one culture without missing it very much). There’s only so much you can assimilate in a lifetime, and to a considerable extent, time spent in contact with one culture is time not spent in contact with another.
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x CONTROARG
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x ABBONDANZA DICCONTSTTO CON CULTURE DIVRRSE
