Trendy wars are more and more evolving into massacres concentrating on and victimizing civilians. We see it once more in probably the most tragic method within the mass extermination of girls and youngsters at the moment unfolding in Gaza earlier than the eyes of shocked humanity.
We analyzed this unhappy phenomenon within the e-book HotDoc.Historical past launched in July 2022. Resulting from its bloody timeliness you can see it once more on the newsstands inserted in Documento on Sunday, Might 19.
It has been over 25 centuries because the bloodbath of Miles, 22 because the destruction of Carthage and eight since Genghis Khan’s lethal advance and all the identical: mass extermination, killing, looting, plundering, inflicting famine/illness, kidnapping , hostage, displacement, compelled refugee standing.
Humanity entered the twentieth century with two unimaginable catastrophes that price 100,000,000 human lives. And probably the most tragic: From World Struggle I to World Struggle II the ratio of civilians killed in relation to the army elevated from 1 to 1 to three to 1. World Struggle II – the civilian warfare par excellence – woke up consciences.
Primarily based on the acquis of the Nuremberg trial, humanitarian regulation was legally accomplished. However, we’re reliving the repetition of the identical drama. Perhaps even a brand new purgatory trial.
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