{"quotes":[{"text":"That war [Bosnian war] in the early 1990s changed a lot for me. I never thought I would see, in Europe, a full-dress reprise of internment camps, the mass murder of civilians, the reinstiutution of torture and rape as acts of policy. And I didn't expect so many of my comrades to be indifferent - or even take the side of the fascists. It was a time when many people on the left were saying 'Don't intervene, we'll only make things worse' or, 'Don't intervene, it might destabilise the region. And I thought - destabilisation of fascist regimes is a good thing. Why should the left care about the stability of undemocratic regimes? Wasn't it a good thing to destabilise the regime of General Franco? It was a time when the left was mostly taking the conservative, status quo position - leave the Balkans alone, leave Milosevic alone, do nothing. And that kind of conservatism can easily mutate into actual support for the aggressors. Weimar-style conservatism can easily mutate into National Socialism. So you had people like Noam Chomsky's co-author Ed Herman go from saying 'Do nothing in the Balkans', to actually supporting Milosevic, the most reactionary force in the region. That's when I began to first find myself on the same side as the neocons. I was signing petitions in favour of action in Bosnia, and I would look down the list of names and I kept finding, there's Richard Perle. There's Paul Wolfowitz. That seemed interesting to me. These people were saying that we had to act. Before, I had avoided them like the plague, especially because of what they said about General Sharon and about Nicaragua. But nobody could say they were interested in oil in the Balkans, or in strategic needs, and the people who tried to say that - like Chomsky - looked ridiculous. So now I was interested.","author":"Christopher Hitchens","tags":["anti-war","bosnia-and-herzegovina","bosnian-war","ethnic-cleansing","genocide","humanitarian-intervention","interventionism","isolationism","leftism","neocons","neoconservatism","noninterventionism","pacifism","war"],"id":1585,"author_id":"Christopher+Hitchens"},{"text":"We should, however, not forget that ethnic cleansing, especially of nonwhite Muslim peoples, has old historical roots in Russia. John Dunlop, for instance, reminds us that “in May 1856, Count Kiselev, minister of state domains, informed officials in the Crimea that Alexander [tsar Alexander II] was interested in ‘cleansing’ (Kiselev used the verb oshishchat’) Crimea of as many Tatars as possible.” That the tsarist empire was interested in annexing foreign lands, but not in annexing foreign peoples, was expressed by the famous remark of a tsarist minister that “Russia needs Armenia, but she has no need of Armenians.” [192].","author":"Marcel H. Van Herpen","tags":["ethnic-cleansing","history","population-policy","russia","xenophobia"],"id":22377,"author_id":"Marcel+H.+Van+Herpen"},{"text":"The coining of their new catch-phrase 'homophiliac' displayed in contrast to 'homophobic' was rather amusing, though to think that they believe it means anything different to 'homophobic' is just facetious. It's like someone trying to create a difference in definition between 'genocide' and 'ethnic cleansing' - or to make the one look better or less reprehensible than the other.","author":"Christina Engela","tags":["amusing","believe","catch-phrase","coining","contrast","definition","difference","different","displayed","ethnic-cleansing","facetious","genocide","homophiliac","homophobic","reprehensible"],"id":30801,"author_id":"Christina+Engela"},{"text":"I am not perfect, but if I looked perfect to everyone I must have been rocking imperfect perfectly to a few imperfect souls that seek imperfection vs. Perfection, in an imperfect world where God asks us to seek perfection for our imperfect souls.","author":"Shannon L. Alder","tags":["brainwashed","christian-hypocrisy","conundrum","critics","ethnic-cleansing","gibberish","group-cyberbulling","haters","humor","imperfect","imperfection","insecure","jokes","judegment","judgement","judgers","laughing","oscar-wilde","perfect","perfection","philosophical-redundance","piety","self-righteousness","stupid-people","stupidity"],"id":75092,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"},{"text":"Darwinism by itself did not produce the Holocaust, but without Darwinism... Neither Hitler nor his Nazi followers would have had the necessary scientific underpinnings to convince themselves and their collaborators that one of the worlds greatest atrocities was really morally praiseworthy.","author":"Richard Weikart","tags":["darwin","darwinism","ethnic-cleansing","eugenics","evolution","genocide","hitler","holocaust","macro-evolution","macroevolution","nazism","racism","social-darwinism","war","world-war-2","world-war-ii","world-war-two"],"id":147118,"author_id":"Richard+Weikart"},{"text":"More than that, in the five hundred years of European OCCUPATION, Native cultures have already driven themselves to be remarkably tenacious and resilient.","author":"Thomas King","tags":["ethnic-cleansing","human-rights","occupation"],"id":158184,"author_id":"Thomas+King"},{"text":"Ancient boundaries are meaningless, except for political purposes; old divisions of clan and tribe are sentimental remnants of the pre-atomic age; neither creed nor color nor place of origin is relevant to the realities of modern power to utterly seek and destroy.","author":"Sydney J. Harris","tags":["ethnic-cleansing","genocide","hate","violence","war"],"id":161415,"author_id":"Sydney+J.+Harris"},{"text":"There are no worse oppressors than those who have been oppressed themselves for they will justify all means of self-preservation, including persecution and oppression of others, to the extent of, and worse than that which they had endured. This will weigh heavily on the souls of future generations.","author":"H.N.Ellessy","tags":["aparthide","ethnic-cleansing","genocide","human-rights","oppression","racism"],"id":173890,"author_id":"H.N.Ellessy"},{"text":"It is incredible that this must be said, but the obvious seems to escape politicized academics, so we must state the obvious: Genocide is deliberate; it is premeditated. There is no genocide without premeditation. The murders are not unfortunate coincidences. This is why it is called 'mass MURDER' and not 'mass MANSLAUGHTER.","author":"A.E. Samaan","tags":["20th-century","communism","communists","ethnic-cleansing","genocidal","genocide","holocaust","holomodor","international-socialism","libertarian","liberty","mass-murder","socialism","socialist"],"id":212822,"author_id":"A.E.+Samaan"},{"text":"Bosnia's war had its visual hallmarks. Parks that were turned into cemeteries, refugee families piled onto horse-drawn carts, stop-or-die checkpoints with mines across the road. The most hideous hallmark of all was the blackened patch of ground in the center of town. It always meant the same thing, a destroyed mosque. The goal of ethnic cleansing was not simply to get rid of Muslims; it was to destroy all traces that they had ever lived in Bosnia. The goal was to kill history. If you want to do that, then you must rip out history's heart, which in the case of Bosnia's Muslim community meant the destruction of its mosques. Once that was done, you could reinvent the past in whatever distorted form you wanted, like Frankenstein.P. 85.","author":"Peter Maass","tags":["bosnian-war","destruction-of-history","ethnic-cleansing","history","yugoslavia"],"id":286879,"author_id":"Peter+Maass"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":13,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}