SelzeroWe are hearing the words "war crime" from some quarters for the first time.
We were wondering why they had not cared about war crimes in the region until now.
There seems to have been an update to the concept of a war crime.
Maz@selzero that's not an update, that's a built in feature since colonial times.and they wonder why there's no sympathy from the global south for the state that shall not be named.
Random Walsh@maz @selzero nothing new. These notions have always been used differently according to who does what. "They" do war crimes, "we" do collateral damage. "They" kill, "we" resist. You'll find this absolutely everywhere, on every continent, in every culture, between people very different from each other or between people having only minor differences. Colonial mentality sure doesn't help.
@ratel @selzero Colonialism has managed to streamline and industrialize this process, then universalize it. So when the hutsi's and tutsi's have an us vs. them mentality, it's local. Yet the class relations and race relations established by colonialism, and it's later inheritors capitalism and neo-liberalism has managed to codify this built in feature as a universally acceptable reality - and has viciously attacked and demolished any culture / nation opposing the relations they've established.