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1/8 Trump, in endorsing China's genocide against the Uighurs, joins a long list of US presidents of both parties who have winked, nodded, or openly supported genocide. We could start with Lyndon Johnson, who backed genocide in Indonesia: https://www.publicaffairsbooks.com/titles/vincent-bevins/the-jakarta-method/9781541724013/
2/8 Next we have Richard Nixon, who not only killed at least 600,000 in the illegal bombing of Cambodia and 400,000 bombing Laos, openly sided with Pakistan in its genocidal war in East Pakistan, which Gary Bass has described in horrifying detail: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/212279/the-blood-telegram-by-gary-j-bass/
3/8 Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter, not to be outdone, backed the 1975 Indonesian invasion and occupation of East Timor, which resulted in the death of between 1/6 and 1/4 of the population between 1975-1981. They knew genocide was taking place and were ok: https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB176/index.htm
4/8 Ronald Reagan deserves much credit as an enthusiastic backer of genocidal regimes. He backed the Guatemalan dictator Rios Montt as he carried out a genocidal war against the country's indigenous Mayan community, as Greg Grandin has detailed: https://www.amazon.com/Last-Colonial-Massacre-America-Updated/dp/0226306909
5/8 Reagan also backed Saddam Hussein in his genocidal assault on Iraq's Kurdish population in 1988: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0521876869/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0521876869&linkCode=as2&tag=lawfblog-20
6/8 Bill Clinton, as we now know, watched the Rwandan genocide unfold in real time in 1994, and not only did nothing to intervene and stop it but worked to prevent the UN from intervene and actually withdraw its forces from Rwanda: https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB117/index.htm
7/8 Bush committed mass murder on a global scale, though arguably not genocide. Obama backed the Saudi war in Yemen with weapons and diplomatic cover at the UN, even as it became clear that the Saudi regime was committing mass murder on a genocidal scale: https://theconversation.com/us-complicity-in-the-saudi-led-genocide-in-yemen-spans-obama-trump-administrations-106896
8/8 Trump's support for China's genocidal campaign against the Uighur is revolting. But Trump is following in a long line of US presidents who have directly engaged with or supported genocidal regimes and supported their crimes. In this sense he is very much like his peers.
