Perhaps they aren’t killed in the same numbers in Ukraine, but mass kidnapping and relocation to Russia is pretty shit too.
Maybe all war is horrible, and should be used as a very last resort to save civilian lives. Maybe people should just be allowed to live their lives in peace.
I would imagine the genocides in Bosnia or Rwanda were worse… but are they counting that as “modern times”.
Yes those are worse using their deaths per day metric, but they don’t seem to be going before 2008, or looking at civilian on civilian.
That’s the problem with getting old… "Bosnia and Rwanda, that was, what? 10? 12 years ago?..
(looks up Wikipedia) 1992, 1994, 1995… yeah, so, like 10-12 years ago… tops…"
I know! Or people talk about how they love old movies… like Fight Club.
The problem for-real though is you end up with all this knowledge about how things went down and you realise half the people you’re talking to don’t know about any of that.
For children, surely top 5. Rwanda and Yemen, the USA’s caused deaths in Iraq due to the power vacuum they created are higher though.
Maybe Susan, Yemen, the Rohingya… all those that aren’t remembered often
It’s a real neck and neck race between genocidal war and America’s school system
