Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!psuvax1!psuvm!auvm!FRCPN11!PHARABOD From: PHARABOD@FRCPN11.BITNET Newsgroups: bit.listserv.disarm-l Subject: Re: Who persecuted the Jews?????? Message-ID: Date: 20 Feb 90 15:32:37 GMT Sender: Disarmament Discussion List Reply-To: Disarmament Discussion List Lines: 16 Approved: NETNEWS@AUVM.BITNET Gateway If the definition has not changed, a genocide is the systematic killing of a specified ethnic group: men, women and children. From what I have read, I understand that there have been three genocides in this century: Armenians by the Turks, Jews by the Germans, Tziganes by the Germans. Though he was a monster, Stalin was not a "genocidist". I have read Solzhenitsyn several years ago, and he said that in the Gulag there were about 10% women, and very few children (if my memory is good). The case of the Khmer Rouge is less clear: it seems that they killed systematically a part of their own people, including women and children. Surely the genocide of the Jews by the Germans is the worst of all: enormous number of victims, and industrialization of the process. However, it seems that the only completely successful genocide has been the genocide of the Tasmanians by the Australian settlers, last century. Jean-Pierre Pharabod