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How Does the War on Terror Stack Up to Some of History's Most Infamous Genocides?

Corbley, Andy
http://original.antiwar.com/Andy_Corbley/2019/07/01/how-does-the-war-on-terror-stack-up-to-some-of-historys-most-infamous-genocides/

Publisher:  antiwar.com
Date Written:  02/07/2019
Year Published:  2019  
Resource Type:  Article

A look at whether the US War on Terror can be classified as genocide. Comparisons to historical precedents are complicated since the War on Terror is not a systematic effort directed at one location.

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World at Large reports that the Global War on Terror has killed or wounded 1,321,955 people, the overwhelming majority of which were Muslims. The figure also includes international aid workers, journalists, American military personnel, etc. This number was based on reported casualties alone.

World at Large calculated the loss of life using a large number of reports that tallied only the dead. Most of the casualty figures from 2019 consisted of traditional wartime casualties, i.e. dead, wounded, missing, and captured. All sides’ casualty figures were recorded, and no classification was excluded i.e. political killings, assassination, traditional warfare, suicide attacks, summary executions by U.S. backed state forces, etc....

Will history remember this as a war, genocide, or both? While the United States' and her allies aren't deliberately targeting Muslims for the purpose of cultural or ethno-destruction, the consequences of the broad, sometimes vague, and indefinite commitments and objectives that have run the gamut from counterinsurgency raids to nation building have had an indirect effect considerably similar to genocide.


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