Post-WW2, pre-Ukraine invasion: What genocides occurred? In which should the US have intervened?

[CumbrianLefty]

Rwanda, everyone acknowledges that one.

Other genocides which America could but didn't intervene or even encouraged:

Zair 1996
Iraqi Kurds late 1980's
Cambodia late 1970's
The South American Death Camps 1970's
East Timor 1974
Cyprus 1974
Bangladesh 1971

India dealt with Bangladesh, and Vietnam with Pol Pot. Of course at the time of those events, the US was pro-Pakistan (India was too "pro-Communist", you see) and then, in one of the more absurd and shameful moments of post-war diplomacy, condemned the Vietnamese invasion and proceeded to give support to an "opposition" containing "moderate <sic> Khmer Rouge".

[CumbrianLefty]

Not just that, but she used the same "Khmer Rouge moderates" line when asked a question about Cambodia on Blue Peter (one of Britain's longest running children's TV programmes) back in the 80s. One of those - in several senses - surreal moments that simply wouldn't be believable if there wasn't actual documentary evidence of it.

[CumbrianLefty]

We DID intervene in the Bosnian genocide and Kosovo. Clinton learned his lesson from not intervening in Rwanda.

I would also argue Vietnamese was also a genocide

My Lai massacre

Isolated war crimes do not equal genocide. At no point did the US set out to exterminate the Vietnamese people. We actually held some of the perpetrators of My Lai accountable even. More than you can say for Russia, where war crimes are all but encouraged and the extermination of an ethnic group/nationality is an explicit goal.

But by all means, keep trying to "both sides" and "whatabout" everything.

By the way OP, why did you get rid of that thread you made about whether Russia met the UN definition of genocide? I had some good posts in that thread. Guess the poll results and ownings you took in the replies were too embarrassing for you?

Kosovars love Clinton for it as well.

Quite a lot of Kosovars in their teens and early 20s called Tonibler too.

[CumbrianLefty]

They "agreed" to it because it was pretty much going to happen anyway.

Besides, the idea that Germany deserved retribution in some form was pretty widespread by the end of WW2 and far from just endorsed by Stalin and his apologists. To admittedly put it at its crudest, it just possibly wasn't a good idea to start two World Wars in 25 years?

[CumbrianLefty]

We shouldn’t have intervened in Rwanda.

Who is "we" in this context - the US, or the "outside world" more generally?