Jorge Rafael Videla Dead.

[camberiu]

State terrorism, absolutely, but "genocide" suggests singling out a particular ethnic group. The Argentine milicos targeted other Argentines not because of their ethnicity but because of their political beliefs (or, in many cases, their supposed political beliefs). Of course, more than a few of those milicos singled out Jewish Argentines for special abusive treatment, but the political criteria were primary. Most victims were ethnically indistinguishable from their killers and torturers.

That os correct. Mass murder is NOT the same as genocide. It is not an effort to minimize the crimes committed by the junta, but it is important to properly label the crimes.

 

[ajoknoblauch]

That os correct. Mass murder is NOT the same as genocide. It is not an effort to minimize the crimes committed by the junta, but it is important to properly label the crimes.

If the milicos had, for instance, singled out the Mapuche, that would have been genocide.

 

[Bajo_cero2]

That os correct. Mass murder is NOT the same as genocide. It is not an effort to minimize the crimes committed by the junta, but it is important to properly label the crimes.

What difference rhat it makes?

According to the dictionary it is included the mass murderee of a politic group.

According to The Roma Convention, no.

We are not at Court...

 

[Joe]

The sad thing is that all of this has its roots in the mass hysteria and fear of Communism. Billions of people around the world got caught up in the hysteria. Almost every country got caught up in it. And then Communism petered out on it won. It was all pointless.

Videla thought he was doing God's work by battling the Godless Communists. In order to live with his atrocities, he probably continued to believe that just to keep his sanity.

 

[pauper]

What difference rhat it makes?

According to the dictionary it is included the mass murderee of a politic group.

According to The Roma Convention, no.

We are not at Court...

Its an abuse of language - why not just call it what it was? Its like there's some insecurity that what was done wasn't horrific enough and so the atrocity needs to be inflated. I think that's an insult to all those who suffered under the dictatorship.

The same goes for calling el Grupo Clarín a monopoly.