The great race of genocide

I agree with those Jews who are asking themselves if Ukraine's war victims are compared to the victims of the Holocaust. But not completely with them.

My colleague László Seres expresses his opinion on the Neokohn platform in an exciting piece of journalism, according to which, although the uniqueness of the Shoah can be recognized, it is not completely wrong to call Putin's operation in Ukraine a genocide, like the Holocaust. But it is. Totally wrong. True, not for what the author points out, not because

"genocides can be compared even with good intentions, without the aim of relativization, the facts of history cannot be questioned: neither the planned extermination of the Armenians, nor the Tutsi, nor the Bosnians is, compared to the SOA, a genocide on some level, but in its own right. It is clear that the goal is similar in Ukraine as well."

The case of the victims of the completed Holocaust and the ongoing war in Ukraine are two stories with completely different causes, methods and consequences, so the analogy not only smells strongly of sweat, but is also flawed. He's bleeding from a thousand wounds, well, it's enough if we only look at the last sentence of the quote, which is, to put it mildly, speculation.

As for the Holocaust itself, my summary opinion can be summarized in a single paragraph, which I quote from Archbishop Márfi:

"Let me say it briefly: it is still rubbish that it is mandatory to talk about the Nazi holocaust - which I agree with - while the communist holocaust is just allowed, they don't like it in the West, right, we weren't even allowed to ban the red star as a symbol of dictatorial power, Islam and about the Holocaust is strictly prohibited. Yet the Nazis killed six million people, the Communists at least one hundred million, and the number of victims of Islam at least two hundred and seventy million."

Human. Non-Jew, Christian, Atheist, Ukrainian, Russian, Iraqi, Serbian, Afghan; the line can be continued as desired. He's only human.

"Sorry Comrade Virág, this is the verdict"

In the following, the author - using his own words - engages in an "exaggerated analogy" in relation to the civilian victims of Ukraine and Putin's supposed genocide. Because we do not know what happened and what is happening in Ukraine. Not even roughly, let alone exactly. In the noise of the propaganda war and before the conduct of independent (?) investigations, no certainty can be declared, especially not based on opinion articles or solely on the Ukrainian narrative. If at this moment anyone refers to the genocide committed by the Russians as a fact, it is frivolous and therefore cannot be taken seriously.

Does one genocide beat the other?

And we have arrived at the most exciting part, which summarizes the criteria for genocide with reference to the 1948 UN Convention on Genocide According to Seres, there is hardly anything among these that would not be realized today in Ukraine:

– killing members of the group;

– causing serious physical or mental harm to members of the group;

- deliberately imposing living conditions on the group, the purpose of which is the group's complete or partial physical destruction;

- taking measures aimed at preventing births within the group;

- the forcible transfer of the group's children to another group.

Now, if we accept the line of thought that, according to UN criteria, genocide targeting Ukrainian victims is taking place in Ukraine,

then we also have to accept that, according to UN criteria, genocide aimed at Russian victims took place in Ukraine. In the Crimea. And in Donbass. That is, Putin's thought process.

The question is, does it matter which genocide came first? Does it matter who attacks whom, does the language, ethnicity, and number of the victims matter, does it matter whether innocent people die a violent death in peacetime or war?

What's up, really! If we ignore the human exterminations committed by America in this century alone - in total, hundreds of thousands of Iraqis, Syrians, Afghans, etc. we are talking about a civilian victim - it is enough to look at the headlines of the domestic progressive press. They are the ones who are protesting with their hands and feet about the genocide mentioned by Putin, and it is especially spicy that they are also doing this by referring to the UN Genocide Convention.

Telex, for example, in its Fact-check article: Genocide is not taking place in Eastern Ukraine, but the lives of the locals are really not easy (we sense the professional trivialization and relativization, don't we?) even violates its own logic in this way:

Litmus chose a more shrewd solution, it is true that it still refers to the UN criteria, but what is certain is that it also uses the German Chancellor as a shield in its article entitled There is no evidence that genocide is taking place in Ukraine, although Putin refers to it in vain After all, Olaf Scholz already knows, he obviously spent a lot of time in Donbass.

Genocide is a murky affair, just after the Jerusalem Post, Nekohn wrote why: because it is difficult to prove.

“So far, three cases have been classified as genocide before international courts: the massacre of non-Khmer ethnic groups by the Cambodian Khmer Rouge in the 1970s (an estimated 1.7 million dead); the 1994 mass killing of the Tutsis in Rwanda (800,000 dead); and the Srebrenica massacre of 1995, which killed some 8,000 Muslim men and boys in Bosnia.”

At the moment, we do not have exact data on Ukrainian civilians - what does an armed civilian count for? - we can only guess about the number of victims and the end of the war. I note that it is telling that America's Ukrainian voice, President (Z)elensky, wants unconditional negotiations ; it raises many additional questions, whether we, but most of all, who could be trapped in the catacombs of the Azovstal plant, whom the Russians look after like the apple of their eye. Not 240 NATO officers? Maybe even more exclusive guests?

Can many red aces fit in a small space?

However, we know for sure that Laci Seres sees what she wants to see, not what is, and that she is biased against both Jews and Ukrainians. Only a little better with the latter.

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