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Old 12-01-2010, 10:20 PM   #74
Aliantha
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Originally Posted by Urbane Guerrilla View Post
Willingly.

For just one single if overwhelming example: genocide happens to unarmed populations, not to armed ones. With an armed population, a genocide recedes so far from practicability as to be something invisible.

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In Rwanda, no one was really armed with much more than a machete, and both sides had those. It's just that the aggressors chose to use theirs.
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