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"I think if people see this footage, they'll say Oh, my God, that's horrible. And then they'll go on eating their dinners." -- Hotel Rwanda
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A short list...
The Killing Fields... the reign of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia from 1975-1979. There were at least 2 MILLION people murdered, from a population of 8 million... that's a horrendous percentage of the population. The actual number is unknown, and has been reported as being closer to 3 million. And no one talks about it. Did I mention the 10 million landmines left behind by the Khmer Rouge?
The Sudanese civil war and the conflict in Darfur, Sudan. Hundreds of thousands killed (if not millions), and no one cares because it's in Africa. Just like in Hotel Rwanda... no one cares about Africans killing each other, in the end. On a website, I found this description to be fitting for explaining just about every conflict described in this post:
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The main cause of this conflict is the widespread feeling of being consistently socio-economically marginalized and the sense of being left out of the peace negotiations particularly in the context of self-determination and power sharing. --http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/para/darfur.htm
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The Lebanese civil war, from 1975-1990. Followed by what is going on right now in Lebanon. It boggles me that for most of my childhood, I was growing up in a nice rural/suburban area of Seattle, and my love
was growing up in the middle of a civil war on the other side of the world. And no one seemed to care much at the time... just as few seem to care much about Lebanon right now, beyond the fact that Israel is involved.
The Iraq Civil War, going on right now. It's already being forgotten or ignored by so many people, it's unbelievable. Hundreds dying every single day. Does it only matter if Americans die? Or does that not even matter anymore?