#Atrocities

Sunset Ostriches

SunsetOstriches

In 1950, the Pentagon produced a documentary on Korean war crimes. Narrated by Humphrey Bogart, it proclaimed: “Taejon: men, women & children murdered cold-bloodedly, deliberately, butchered to spread terror” by

Leonydus Johnson

LeonydusJohnson

It seems to me that the primary reason so many people have such a difficult time seeing themselves in history's atrocities and why they fail to recognize that they're repeating

Eric Garland

ericgarland

Just one more thought: I want you to try to envision just how many resources they just deployed to break your spirit. How many bribes paid, how many lies propagandized,

HisRoyalFlyness

FlyIngenuity

I hate doing long posts because Twitter format isn't made for it, and my joints lately make for lots of mistakes, but I find it necessary: Let's discuss our country,

Nijat Gasimov

GasimovNi

Glad to see vast majority of AZ community raise their voice against this war crime and express their anger. But two important tasks lie ahead for us: 1. For AZ

Kooky/کوکي ⚒️ 🔻

shawarmacommie

Ok, I may have lied. I am going to get political for a second. The narrative that is pushed by the West, that Stalin and Hitler's governments were comparable in

matthewsyed

matthewsyed

1/ Thread on Empire and Racism and need for contextMy dad grew up under the Indian Raj, and endured racism in the UK. But he loves Britain. Why? Because he

#AllowAccessToTigray Yared

yaredinho_r9

"...as the conflict broke out during harvest season, leaving crops unharvested" "Key supply routes to Tigray are still cut”Two telling facts that are vital components of #Amhara elites & #Eritrea's

El

elshadai_g

A thread on Armenians in Ethiopia:During the early 1900s, Armenian Christians were systematically massacred by the Ottoman government. This genocide is known as the Armenian holocaust. The total number of

Sohrab Haider

SohrabHaider7

THREAD ON BALOCHISTAN CRISIS #Balochistan is too serious a problem to get tackled by rhetoric. What has been happening here is simply genocide. There needs to be an ‘effective intervention’

Brett McGurk

brett_mcgurk

Trump today said “nothing happened” when he handed 2/3 of ISIS’s former caliphate in Syria to Erdogan and Putin, leaving our partners to fend for themselves, and displacing 200k people

rip van winkle

long_napper

one of my favorite sub-plots on twitter are fantasy reeducation programs and/or gulags. this narrative takes on some interesting forms, I'm sure there are more than what I've observed: 1.

Funmi 🏳️‍🌈

vickindaugly

Right I’m going to make a thread on why you shouldn’t compare non-human animal oppression to human oppression and I promise you, it’s nothing to do with speciesism (1) All

Crommunist

Crommunist

There are already calls for "forgiveness" and "healing" and "reaching out" now that Joe Biden is elected.I understand the impulse behind these statements, but they are FUNDAMENTALLY immoralThread The best

George Monbiot

GeorgeMonbiot

The histories our governments create are one long chain of lies. Lies designed to hide:- Concentration camps, torture and killing in Kenya- Massacres in Malaya- Manufactured famine in Bengal- The

Garry Kasparov

Kasparov63

This by Voltaire is often paraphrased as "Anyone who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Reducing our exposure to and belief in absurdities reduces injustice. This

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