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REMEMBERING CIVILIAN WAR DEATHS
Gideon Polya
MWC News (Media With Conscience)
http://mwcnews.net/focus/analysis/14774-remembering-civilian.html
Nov 11 2011
Unique Remembrance Day at 11.11.11 on 11.11.11
History ignored yields history repeated. That in part is why at the
11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of each year since the
WW1 Armistice Day in 1918 people have held 1 minute's silence to
remember the war dead. However in subsequent wars civilian deaths
vastly outnumbered military deaths as killing technology advanced. On
Remembrance Day (Armistice Day) we should remember all who died
in wars, both civilians and soldiers. 12 million Muslims, mostly
civilians, have died so far in the post-1990 US War on Muslims.
Remembrance Day (Armistice Day) is peculiar in that at the time of
11.11.11 on the day of 11.11.11, the time (at 11 seconds past 11
minutes past 11 o'clock) and the date (11th day of the 11th month of
the 11th year of the 21st century) will be a perfect same-numbered
palindrome, reading the same backwards as forwards, an event
which can only happen on one day every 100 years. This singularity
should provide impetus for the World to recognize the continuing,
genocidal carnage in the post-1990 US Alliance War on Muslims that
has so far been associated with about 12 million war-related deaths,
a Muslim Holocaust and a Muslim Genocide that is resolutely ignored
by the Mainstream media, academics and politicians of the Western
Murdochracies (Big Money buys truth and votes) and Lobbyocracies
(Big Money buys politicians and policy).
"Holocaust" and "Genocide" have very precise meanings. Holocaust
simply means the death of a huge number of people as exampled by the
WW2 Jewish Holocaust (5-6 million people killed, 1 in 6 dying from
deprivation), the WW2 Holocaust in general (30 million Slavs, Jews
and Gypsies killed), the WW2 Bengali Holocaust (6-7 million Indians
deliberately starved to death by the British in 1942-1945) and the
35 million Chinese killed associated with the Japanese occupation of
China in the1930s and 1940s.
However the definition of "genocide" by Article 2 of the UN Genocide
Convention involves Assessment of "intent' by those responsible and
states "In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following
acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national,
ethnic, racial or religious group, as such: a) Killing members of
the group; b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of
the group; c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life
calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; e)
Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group."
"Intent" to commit mass murder is only rarely explicitly expressed by
mass murderers or serial killers but can be readily determined from
sustained, remorseless conduct. The US Alliance has been involved
in sustained, remorseless active and passive killing of Muslims in
Palestine, Iraq, Afghanistan, Somalia, NW Pakistan, Libya and indeed
around the World as summarized below.
Palestinian Genocide: 0.1 million violent deaths and 1.4 million
war- and occupation-related avoidable deaths from deprivation,
1948-2011; 0.3 million post-invasion violent and non-violent excess
deaths, 1967-2011; 0.2 million post-invasion under-5 infant deaths,
1967-2011(75% avoidable and due to US Alliance-backed Apartheid Israel
war crimes in gross violation of the Geneva Convention and the UN
Genocide Convention), 7 million refugees (see "Palestinian Genocide").
Afghan Genocide: as of October 2011, 5.6 million war-related deaths,
2001-2011; 1.4 million post-invasion violent deaths; 4.2 million
non-violent excess deaths from deprivation; 2.9 million post-invasion
under-5 infant deaths (90% avoidable and due to US Alliance war
crimes in gross violation of the Geneva Convention and the UN Genocide
Convention), 3-4 million refugees plus 2.5 million NW Pakistan Pashtun
refugees (see "Afghan Holocaust, Afghan Genocide").
Iraqi Genocide: for the period 2003- 2011, 2.7 million post-invasion
war-related deaths, 1.5 million violent deaths, 1.2 million non-violent
excess deaths from war-imposed deprivation, 0.8 million post-invasion
under-5 infant deaths, 5-6 million refugees; for the period 1990-2003,
0.2 million violent deaths, 1.7 million non-violent excess deaths
from war-imposed deprivation, 1.2 million under-5 infant deaths;
for the period 1990-2011, 4.6 million war-related deaths, 1.7 million
violent deaths, 2.9 million deaths from war-imposed deprivation, 2.0
million under-5 infant deaths (90% avoidable and due to US Alliance
war crimes in gross violation of the Geneva Convention and the UN
Genocide Convention) (see Iraqi Holocaust, Iraqi Genocide" ).
Somali Genocide: in the period 1992-2011 (this successively involving
US, Ethiopian and most recently Kenyan invasion), 0.4 million violent
deaths, 1.8 million avoidable deaths from war-imposed deprivation,
1.3 million under-5 year old infant deaths (90% avoidable and due to
US Alliance war crimes in gross violation of the Geneva Convention
and the UN Genocide Convention), and 2.0 million refugees.
Libyan Genocide from 2011 onwards: before the France-UK-US (FUKUS)
Coalition invasion the under-5 infant mortality was only 19 per 1,000
births in Libya as compared to 8 in the US; the FUKUS Coalition
has killed up to 50,000 Libyans and wounded 50,000 already; the
FUKUS-backed rebels are ethnically cleansing "Black Libyans"; Tawerga,
formerly with a population of 10,000 mainly black Libyans, has been
destroyed and completely ethnically cleansed; 1 million sub-Saharan
refugees have fled Libya; refugees total about 1.1 million; the Libyan
Holocaust and Libyan Genocide has just begun.
Global Avoidable Mortality Holocaust: the above atrocities are dwarfed
by the 1950-2005 excess deaths in the mostly post-colonial Muslim
World that totaled 0.6 billion (see my book "Body Count. Global
voidable mortality since 1950", G.M. Polya, Melbourne, 2007, and
"Global avoidable mortality").
Climate Holocaust, Climate Genocide: man-made global warming
increasingly impacts the current 18 million annual avoidable deaths
from deprivation and deprivation-exacerbated disease; estimates from
top UK climate scientists Dr James Lovelock and Professor Kevin
Anderson point to 10 billion avoidable deaths this century due to
unaddressed global warming, this including 6 billion infants, 3
billion Muslims in a near-terminal, 21st century Muslim Holocaust, 2
billion Indians, 1.3 billion non-Arab Africans, 0.5 billion Bengalis,
0.3 billion Pakistanis and 0.3 billion Bangladeshis) (see "Climate
Genocide").
As illustrated by the worsening Climate Genocide, the Muslim Holocaust
is just one part of the genocidal attack of the greedy, racist and
genocidal 1% on the 99% of Humanity that is now rising up as evidenced
by the Occupy Movement.
On 10 November 2011 Professor Bruce Scates (Chair of History and
Australian Studies at Monash University) wrote an article in The Age,
Melbourne, entitled "What have we forgotten this Remembrance Day?"
in which he remembers those who wore white poppies (as opposed to
red poppies) in the 1920s and 1930s to protest against war: "Those
who wore white poppies [in the 1920s and 1930s] asked for a stronger
statement, an admission that lasting peace could not be achieved by
human conflict, a recognition that only reconciliation and tolerance
could unite rather than divide the nations (and religions) of the
world, a call for peace with justice. We had need of this voice in
the 1920s and 1930s as the world careered towards the evils of war
and fascism. We have need of it again" (see: here).
The Age kindly published the following comments by me on this humane
article:
"What we have also forgotten are the huge numbers of civilians who
died in post-WW1 wars. Until the advent of the influenza epidemic,
military deaths vastly exceeded civilian deaths (except in Turkey
where the Allied and ANZAC invasion precipitated deadly Turkish
xenophobia and the Armenian Genocide in which 1.5 million Armenians
were slaughtered). Thus in WW2 the Western Theatre Holocaust killed
30 million Slavs, Jews and Gypsies, mostly civilians. In the east,
37 million Chinese perished under the Japanese and in the WW2 Bengali
Holocaust 6-7 million Indians were starved to death by the British
(Australia played its part by withholding wheat from its huge wheat
stockpile on orders from the British). We have now had over 20 years of
a US Alliance War on Muslims in which 12 million people, overwhelming
civilians and substantially children, have died from violence or
war-imposed deprivation. About 100,000 Australian servicemen have
died in foreign wars. However in the last 10 years in Afghanistan war
related deaths total 5.6 million, the carnage including 4.2 million
deaths from war-imposed deprivation (UN Population Division data),
an estimated 1.4 million violent deaths (from Iraq War comparisons),
and 2.9 million under-5 infant deaths (90% avoidable and due to US
Alliance war crimes in gross violation of the Geneva Convention)",
and (in response to bald denial and abusive comment):
"The roundup and massacre of the Armenian Community leaders began on
24 April 1915, the day before the Allied landing but after months of
Allied shelling of the Dardanelles. Turkey was simultaneously being
attacked by Russia in the East and by the British in Iraq. Armenians
acknowledge 24 April as Armenian Genocide Day and it is no coincidence
that this is the day before Anzac Day, 25 April, marking the ANZAC
invasion of Turkey. For the details and context of the Armenian
Genocide read "Denial. History Betrayed" by Professor Tony Taylor;
"With Intent to Destroy. Reflecting on Genocide" by Professor Colin
Tatz and "The History and Sociology of Genocide: by Professors
Chalk and Jonassohn. Conversely, conservative Australian historian
Professor Geoffrey Blainey AC provides no mention of the Armenian
Genocide in his "A Short History of the World" and his "A Very Short
History of the World" (for details of this remarkable omission Google
"Kim Kardashian publicizes Armenian Genocide").
War is evil and increasingly sophisticated high technology killing
has hugely increased the numbers of civilians killed in wars. Civilian
deaths in wars now greatly exceed the number of combatants killed.
Thus while US casualties totaled about 108,000 in post-1950 US Asian
war (36, 516 in Korea, 58,151 in Indo-China and 6,280 in the War on
Terror; Google "United States casualties of war") the violent Asian
deaths and non-violent Asian deaths from war-imposed deprivation now
total about 30 million.
Summary
Remembrance Day (Armistice Day) is often used by warmongers to
glorify war but should be used to remember, expose and protest the
huge civilian deaths in post-WW2 US wars. History ignored yields
history repeated. Genocide ignored yields genocide repeated. Peace
is the only way but silence kills and silence is complicity. We must
speak out against past and ongoing genocidal violence. About 50% of
the populations devastated by the US Alliance in post-WW2 wars have
been children. Civilians and children in particular have been major
victims of these wars. Thou shalt not kill children. Decent people
must (a) inform others and (b) urge Sanctions and Boycotts to stop
the scourge of US state terrorism and genocidal US Alliance violence.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
Gideon Polya
MWC News (Media With Conscience)
http://mwcnews.net/focus/analysis/14774-remembering-civilian.html
Nov 11 2011
Unique Remembrance Day at 11.11.11 on 11.11.11
History ignored yields history repeated. That in part is why at the
11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of each year since the
WW1 Armistice Day in 1918 people have held 1 minute's silence to
remember the war dead. However in subsequent wars civilian deaths
vastly outnumbered military deaths as killing technology advanced. On
Remembrance Day (Armistice Day) we should remember all who died
in wars, both civilians and soldiers. 12 million Muslims, mostly
civilians, have died so far in the post-1990 US War on Muslims.
Remembrance Day (Armistice Day) is peculiar in that at the time of
11.11.11 on the day of 11.11.11, the time (at 11 seconds past 11
minutes past 11 o'clock) and the date (11th day of the 11th month of
the 11th year of the 21st century) will be a perfect same-numbered
palindrome, reading the same backwards as forwards, an event
which can only happen on one day every 100 years. This singularity
should provide impetus for the World to recognize the continuing,
genocidal carnage in the post-1990 US Alliance War on Muslims that
has so far been associated with about 12 million war-related deaths,
a Muslim Holocaust and a Muslim Genocide that is resolutely ignored
by the Mainstream media, academics and politicians of the Western
Murdochracies (Big Money buys truth and votes) and Lobbyocracies
(Big Money buys politicians and policy).
"Holocaust" and "Genocide" have very precise meanings. Holocaust
simply means the death of a huge number of people as exampled by the
WW2 Jewish Holocaust (5-6 million people killed, 1 in 6 dying from
deprivation), the WW2 Holocaust in general (30 million Slavs, Jews
and Gypsies killed), the WW2 Bengali Holocaust (6-7 million Indians
deliberately starved to death by the British in 1942-1945) and the
35 million Chinese killed associated with the Japanese occupation of
China in the1930s and 1940s.
However the definition of "genocide" by Article 2 of the UN Genocide
Convention involves Assessment of "intent' by those responsible and
states "In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following
acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national,
ethnic, racial or religious group, as such: a) Killing members of
the group; b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of
the group; c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life
calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; e)
Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group."
"Intent" to commit mass murder is only rarely explicitly expressed by
mass murderers or serial killers but can be readily determined from
sustained, remorseless conduct. The US Alliance has been involved
in sustained, remorseless active and passive killing of Muslims in
Palestine, Iraq, Afghanistan, Somalia, NW Pakistan, Libya and indeed
around the World as summarized below.
Palestinian Genocide: 0.1 million violent deaths and 1.4 million
war- and occupation-related avoidable deaths from deprivation,
1948-2011; 0.3 million post-invasion violent and non-violent excess
deaths, 1967-2011; 0.2 million post-invasion under-5 infant deaths,
1967-2011(75% avoidable and due to US Alliance-backed Apartheid Israel
war crimes in gross violation of the Geneva Convention and the UN
Genocide Convention), 7 million refugees (see "Palestinian Genocide").
Afghan Genocide: as of October 2011, 5.6 million war-related deaths,
2001-2011; 1.4 million post-invasion violent deaths; 4.2 million
non-violent excess deaths from deprivation; 2.9 million post-invasion
under-5 infant deaths (90% avoidable and due to US Alliance war
crimes in gross violation of the Geneva Convention and the UN Genocide
Convention), 3-4 million refugees plus 2.5 million NW Pakistan Pashtun
refugees (see "Afghan Holocaust, Afghan Genocide").
Iraqi Genocide: for the period 2003- 2011, 2.7 million post-invasion
war-related deaths, 1.5 million violent deaths, 1.2 million non-violent
excess deaths from war-imposed deprivation, 0.8 million post-invasion
under-5 infant deaths, 5-6 million refugees; for the period 1990-2003,
0.2 million violent deaths, 1.7 million non-violent excess deaths
from war-imposed deprivation, 1.2 million under-5 infant deaths;
for the period 1990-2011, 4.6 million war-related deaths, 1.7 million
violent deaths, 2.9 million deaths from war-imposed deprivation, 2.0
million under-5 infant deaths (90% avoidable and due to US Alliance
war crimes in gross violation of the Geneva Convention and the UN
Genocide Convention) (see Iraqi Holocaust, Iraqi Genocide" ).
Somali Genocide: in the period 1992-2011 (this successively involving
US, Ethiopian and most recently Kenyan invasion), 0.4 million violent
deaths, 1.8 million avoidable deaths from war-imposed deprivation,
1.3 million under-5 year old infant deaths (90% avoidable and due to
US Alliance war crimes in gross violation of the Geneva Convention
and the UN Genocide Convention), and 2.0 million refugees.
Libyan Genocide from 2011 onwards: before the France-UK-US (FUKUS)
Coalition invasion the under-5 infant mortality was only 19 per 1,000
births in Libya as compared to 8 in the US; the FUKUS Coalition
has killed up to 50,000 Libyans and wounded 50,000 already; the
FUKUS-backed rebels are ethnically cleansing "Black Libyans"; Tawerga,
formerly with a population of 10,000 mainly black Libyans, has been
destroyed and completely ethnically cleansed; 1 million sub-Saharan
refugees have fled Libya; refugees total about 1.1 million; the Libyan
Holocaust and Libyan Genocide has just begun.
Global Avoidable Mortality Holocaust: the above atrocities are dwarfed
by the 1950-2005 excess deaths in the mostly post-colonial Muslim
World that totaled 0.6 billion (see my book "Body Count. Global
voidable mortality since 1950", G.M. Polya, Melbourne, 2007, and
"Global avoidable mortality").
Climate Holocaust, Climate Genocide: man-made global warming
increasingly impacts the current 18 million annual avoidable deaths
from deprivation and deprivation-exacerbated disease; estimates from
top UK climate scientists Dr James Lovelock and Professor Kevin
Anderson point to 10 billion avoidable deaths this century due to
unaddressed global warming, this including 6 billion infants, 3
billion Muslims in a near-terminal, 21st century Muslim Holocaust, 2
billion Indians, 1.3 billion non-Arab Africans, 0.5 billion Bengalis,
0.3 billion Pakistanis and 0.3 billion Bangladeshis) (see "Climate
Genocide").
As illustrated by the worsening Climate Genocide, the Muslim Holocaust
is just one part of the genocidal attack of the greedy, racist and
genocidal 1% on the 99% of Humanity that is now rising up as evidenced
by the Occupy Movement.
On 10 November 2011 Professor Bruce Scates (Chair of History and
Australian Studies at Monash University) wrote an article in The Age,
Melbourne, entitled "What have we forgotten this Remembrance Day?"
in which he remembers those who wore white poppies (as opposed to
red poppies) in the 1920s and 1930s to protest against war: "Those
who wore white poppies [in the 1920s and 1930s] asked for a stronger
statement, an admission that lasting peace could not be achieved by
human conflict, a recognition that only reconciliation and tolerance
could unite rather than divide the nations (and religions) of the
world, a call for peace with justice. We had need of this voice in
the 1920s and 1930s as the world careered towards the evils of war
and fascism. We have need of it again" (see: here).
The Age kindly published the following comments by me on this humane
article:
"What we have also forgotten are the huge numbers of civilians who
died in post-WW1 wars. Until the advent of the influenza epidemic,
military deaths vastly exceeded civilian deaths (except in Turkey
where the Allied and ANZAC invasion precipitated deadly Turkish
xenophobia and the Armenian Genocide in which 1.5 million Armenians
were slaughtered). Thus in WW2 the Western Theatre Holocaust killed
30 million Slavs, Jews and Gypsies, mostly civilians. In the east,
37 million Chinese perished under the Japanese and in the WW2 Bengali
Holocaust 6-7 million Indians were starved to death by the British
(Australia played its part by withholding wheat from its huge wheat
stockpile on orders from the British). We have now had over 20 years of
a US Alliance War on Muslims in which 12 million people, overwhelming
civilians and substantially children, have died from violence or
war-imposed deprivation. About 100,000 Australian servicemen have
died in foreign wars. However in the last 10 years in Afghanistan war
related deaths total 5.6 million, the carnage including 4.2 million
deaths from war-imposed deprivation (UN Population Division data),
an estimated 1.4 million violent deaths (from Iraq War comparisons),
and 2.9 million under-5 infant deaths (90% avoidable and due to US
Alliance war crimes in gross violation of the Geneva Convention)",
and (in response to bald denial and abusive comment):
"The roundup and massacre of the Armenian Community leaders began on
24 April 1915, the day before the Allied landing but after months of
Allied shelling of the Dardanelles. Turkey was simultaneously being
attacked by Russia in the East and by the British in Iraq. Armenians
acknowledge 24 April as Armenian Genocide Day and it is no coincidence
that this is the day before Anzac Day, 25 April, marking the ANZAC
invasion of Turkey. For the details and context of the Armenian
Genocide read "Denial. History Betrayed" by Professor Tony Taylor;
"With Intent to Destroy. Reflecting on Genocide" by Professor Colin
Tatz and "The History and Sociology of Genocide: by Professors
Chalk and Jonassohn. Conversely, conservative Australian historian
Professor Geoffrey Blainey AC provides no mention of the Armenian
Genocide in his "A Short History of the World" and his "A Very Short
History of the World" (for details of this remarkable omission Google
"Kim Kardashian publicizes Armenian Genocide").
War is evil and increasingly sophisticated high technology killing
has hugely increased the numbers of civilians killed in wars. Civilian
deaths in wars now greatly exceed the number of combatants killed.
Thus while US casualties totaled about 108,000 in post-1950 US Asian
war (36, 516 in Korea, 58,151 in Indo-China and 6,280 in the War on
Terror; Google "United States casualties of war") the violent Asian
deaths and non-violent Asian deaths from war-imposed deprivation now
total about 30 million.
Summary
Remembrance Day (Armistice Day) is often used by warmongers to
glorify war but should be used to remember, expose and protest the
huge civilian deaths in post-WW2 US wars. History ignored yields
history repeated. Genocide ignored yields genocide repeated. Peace
is the only way but silence kills and silence is complicity. We must
speak out against past and ongoing genocidal violence. About 50% of
the populations devastated by the US Alliance in post-WW2 wars have
been children. Civilians and children in particular have been major
victims of these wars. Thou shalt not kill children. Decent people
must (a) inform others and (b) urge Sanctions and Boycotts to stop
the scourge of US state terrorism and genocidal US Alliance violence.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress