Kissinger the Exterminator

MonteDavis modavis at bellatlantic.net
Wed Mar 5 08:14:08 CST 1997


Purely in point of numbers, "the biggest genocidal purge since WWII" is
awfully small potatoes compared to the ~30 million dead in the Great
Leap Forward famines of 1959-61.

But then, the instigators and the victims were pretty much all Han, so
it can't qualify as genocide.

But then, it had nothing whatever to do with US corporations, the
military-industrial complex, or anything more recent or Western than
Leninism, so it probably wasn't so bad.

Jeez, can't you give the Indonesians themselves *any* credit?

-Monte





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