Ms Bond'"Never Again" is embraced by many of all religions and races regarding all genocide everywhere but sadly there seem to be some who think it should only apply to them and their way of life'.'some who think it should only apply to them and their way of life'.Are you referring to the Jews in Israel ?They certainly have experienced genocide which makes them take extreme measures to protect themselves when threatened with annihilation by Hamas (declared openly in their Charter - please read it) and other Islamist groups.Would you not support that were you to be in their situation ?But you are right, their have been other genocides which of course in no way invalidates what Israel has suffered nor what it is doing to prevent such happening again.Most seem to have been carried out in Africa often by Arabic and thus Muslim groups.1) 'The Rapid Support Forces (RSF) of SUDAN and its allied Arab militias started to commit organized mass killings of Masalit civilians and also targeting other non-Arab communities around El Geneina during the Sudanese civil war (2023–present). The events included torture, rape, and looting and were described as the worst atrocities against civilians so far in the 2023 conflict in Sudan.'2) The Rohingya genocide is a series of ongoing persecutions and killings of the Muslim Rohingya people by the military of Myanmar. The genocide has consisted of two phases to date: the first was a military crackdown that occurred from October 2016 to January 2017, and the second has been occurring since August 2017.3) Widespread human rights violations by the Chinese Communist Party against Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities have often been characterized as genocide.4)Genocide of Ukrainians during the current Russo-Ukrainian War5) Genocide in Tigray6) The Iraqi Turkmen genocide refers to a series of killings, rapes, executions, expulsions, and sexual slavery of Iraqi Turkmen by the Islamic State.7) The Yazidi genocide was perpetrated by the Islamic State throughout Iraq and Syria between 2014 and 2017. It was characterized by massacres, genocidal rape, and forced conversions to Islam. Over a period of three years, Islamic State militants trafficked thousands of Yazidi women and girls and killed thousands of Yazidi men.8) The Darfur Sudan genocide is the systematic killing of ethnic Darfuri people which has occurred during the war in Darfur. The genocide, which is being carried out against the Fur, Masalit and Zaghawa ethnic groups9) The systematic extermination of the Bambuti pygmies by rebel forces in the Democratic Republic of the Congo10) Massacres of Hutus during the First Congo War11) Elements of the AFDL and the Rwandan Patriotic Army (RPA) systematically shelled numerous camps and committed massacres with light weapons. These early attacks killed 6,800–8,000 refugees and forced the repatriation of 500,000 – 700,000 refugees back to Rwanda12) The Rwandan Civil War. During this period of around 100 days, members of the Tutsi minority ethnic group, as well as some moderate Hutu and Twa, were killed by armed Hutu militias. Although the Constitution of Rwanda states that more than 1 million people perished in the genocide, the actual number of fatalities is unclear, and some estimates suggest that the real number killed was likely lower. The most widely accepted scholarly estimates are around 500,000 to 800,000 Tutsi deaths.13) The Armenian genocideThis was the systematic destruction of the Armenian people and identity in the Ottoman Empire during World War I. Spearheaded by the ruling Committee of Union and Progress (CUP), it was implemented primarily through the mass murder of around one million Armenians during death marches to the Syrian Desert and the forced Islamization of others, primarily women and children. carried out by the Young Turks, included massacres, forced deportations involving death marches, and mass starvation. It occurred concurrently with the Assyrian and Greek genocides; some scholars consider these to form a broader genocide targeting all of the Christians in Anatolia. Approximately 90% of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire were killed or expelled. The share of Christians in area within Turkey's current borders declined from 20-22% in 1914, or about 3.3.–3.6 million people, to around 3% in 1927.I could go on but you can read more about them onhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_genocidesI think the Guardian article and the continual depiction of the deaths in Gaza in Israel's defensive war as 'genocide' somewhat belittles the term.Please stop using it in this context.Further do you understand why the genocides described above received so little if any publicity and protest compared with the actions of Israel ?Geo-political hypocrisy or antisemitism ?
John Hawkes ● 35d