Area51 wrote:
> I'm skeptical about the claim of a "genocidal" war between
> Pakistan and India in 1947. Wikipedia says deaths on both sides
> were around 7500, and wounded = 17,500. That's 1500 killed on
> India's side, less than US deaths in Afghanistan. So are we
> wrapping up a "genocidal" war with Afghanistan?
> Syria already is past the 100,000 mark, but I recall you writing
> that there is no possibility of a generational crisis civil war in
> Syria. Darfur genocide is 178,000-461,000. Rwandan genocide is
> 500,000-1,000,000.
In generational theory, "genocidal" refers to attitudes and
motivations of masses of people, generations of people, rather than
the number of war deaths. In the last year, "only" a few hundred
Muslims in Burma have been killed by Buddhists, but I call it
"genocidal" because you have hundreds of thousands of Muslims
displaced from their homes that were burned down by thousands of
marauding Buddhists, and you have Buddhists using shovels to bash in
the heads of Muslim children. In the war following Partition and
1947, masses of Hindus and Muslims were slaughtering each other. In
Syria today, you have a lot of people being killed, but the slaughter
is being directed by the al-Assad government, and is not coming from
the people.