Reply #130: And are YOU not quantifying genocide by saying it's happening in Libya?

[David__77]

I firmly believe there is no genocide in Libya. There are killings of armed fighters on both sides, which is legitimate in war, and there have been deaths of non-combatants as well, which may be criminal indeed. But it is not genocide. To say it is belittles the concept of genocide. There is no genocide in Bahrain either or Yemen even. I am not sure if the US conducted genocide in Iraq, but maybe. But the scale of death is not even comparable. I try to avoid the word genocide because it should be reserved for cases of systematic annihilation of whole peoples.