I don't know Stone's motivation, but I agree that scholarship is probably not leading the list.

Quote Originally Posted by Meneldil View Post
The WWII genocide (of which the Holocaust makes up the biggest part) is the ultimate point 0 in the History of mankind. The world's most enlightened nation, that has produced countless number of thinkers, philosophs and scientists suddenly decided to exterminate a significant part of the european population by using modern industrialized methods that would make slaughterhouses look like fancy hotels. All the while the rest of Europe simply stood there, pretending it didn't know what was going on.
There have been mny other acts against minorities over the years, often against the Jews. One that sticks in the mind was in Romania where the victims were suspended on meathooks and piano wire. The youngest was 4.

Germany the world's most enlightened nation? That's certainly up for debate.

But what is the quickest and the least mechanised genocide to date? Or did the UN not get around to deciding whether it was a genocide or not?

Uganda / Ruwanda. 500,000 give or take killed with, in the main, knives.

there was no world war on - so what excuse did the rest of the world have?
Both countries were weak and so intervention would have been comparatively easy.

And STILL the world did nothing.

Do we remember it at all? Or does it not matter as, well, they're poor and we expect no better of Africa?