Talk:Genocides in history
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[edit] Canadian Residential Schools as Genocide?
Does the Canadian Residential School system classify as genocide on behalf of the Canadian government? Looking at article 2(e) of the convention it seems that this has indeed been met as native canadians were forcibly removed from there homes. It seems like article 2(b) might also be satisfied by the abundant amount of abuse/rape of the children attending these schools. Any thoughts?--Kinewone 01:17, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] French Genocide on Algeria?
No info on this???--85.98.142.37 21:36, 4 March 2007 (UTC)
- See Archive 3: Algeria --Philip Baird Shearer 12:03, 9 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Dropping the Atomic Bomb on Japan
I removed the following statement: "The dropping of the Atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was a genocide committed by the American to scare and gain respect of the other nations. Almost 500,000 innocent civilian lives were lost with that unethical bombing." by 67.85.42.120. I would argue whether it was genocide at all since it was more of a limited extermination, and if you did include it, then you would need to include carpet bombing Europe and the earlier firebombing of Japan. Even if it is, the above statement speculates as to the reasoning and grossly distorts the number dead--Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki suggests 214,000 as the total dead. Tewdrig 06:37, 7 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Pre-1500 Genocides? Some more non-Eurocentric ones?
Shouldn't this page include genocides from classical and medival history as well? I.e. the Melian genocide in Thucididies, etc.? I don't want to give the impression that genocide is at all a recent ocurrance. Also, though the writers to a good job of explaining non-Euoprean genocides after 1900, I feel as if this article is severly european-oriented before this time. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 213.174.190.59 (talk • contribs) 18:22, 8 March 2007 (UTC)
- See Archive 3: Ancient/medieval genocides. Any claim that an event was a gencide should be attributed to a reliable source. --Philip Baird Shearer 12:09, 9 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] The Commonwealth of Poland-Lithuania
I removed the section "The Commonwealth of Poland-Lithuania" as no attributable sources claiming it was a genocide have been given and it has been months since one was requested. --Philip Baird Shearer 20:28, 14 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Imperial Japan
Like most of the other sections it describes some very nasty stuff, some of which were crimes against humanity, but despite several weeks since a citation was asked for that the nastiness was a genocide, none have been given and it is not at all clear that the incidents would be considered a genocide under CPPCG if they were to happen today, so I have removed the section. --Philip Baird Shearer 20:28, 14 March 2007 (UTC)
