Lordo wrote:Tim Drayton wrote:miltiades wrote:Robin, whether one accepts the number of deaths given by AI or not the fact of the matter is that deaths occurred. Nothing unusual in this part of the world, killings have been going on for centuries and dare I say will continue for many many years to come .There is a lot more killing to come.
So, you are presumable equally comfortable with the Ottoman government's systematic extermination of some 1.5 million Armenians between the years of 1915-1917?
as if america was not involved when iraq attacked iran and over a million muslims were killed. that was a pure muslim against muslim. i think milti's brains have migrated to another planet.
I don't think that is a fair description! It was a war where Iraq attacked Iran and Iran defended itself. The fact they were both Muslim countries is not really of significance. They were not fighting a religious war.
FYI:What is interesting in that conflict is that Iran had a large arsenal of chemical weapons inherited from the Shahs days, but in spite of Saddam using chemical weapons at Khorramshahr (Nr Ababadan) the Ayatollah Khomeini declared them Haram and forebid their use in retaliation. He declared the same with Nuclear weapons.