Rwandan genocide

This is the difference between a genocide and a not genocide.

Okay, here is population data from Cambodia, from Europe for Jews during the pre- and post-World War II period, the Rwandan genocide, and Gaza.

You may notice one of these things is not like the others.

One of these things just doesn't belong.

The world Jewish population during World War II declines from 17 million all the way down to 10 million, somewhere between 10 and 11 million.

Massive drop.

Rwandan genocide, drop during the Rwandan genocide from 8 million all the way down to 5.5 million.

Gaza, 2000 to May 2025, zero drop-off.

Now, there had been widespread ethnic cleansing of Bosnian Muslims before the NATO intervention, but the fighting ended with the Dayton Accords.

And then there's the Rwandan genocide, which the Clinton administration did absolutely nothing to prevent, and where 800,000 people died in less than a month.

The Rwandan genocide is probably the international community's greatest failure in the second half of the 20th century, and while certainly Clinton was among many people who were complicit to that, including, like, me, uh, you know, it's, so far it's not such a good foreign policy record.

Terrorism also became a bigger issue during Clinton's presidency.

The World Trade Center was bombed for the first time, the USS Cole was attacked, but the most destructive terrorist act during Clinton's presidency was, of course, committed by Americans, Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols, who blew up the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City.

Now, this is a very interesting story.

The first UK charges brought in London over the 1994 Rwandan genocide.

What's the story here, Christian?

Yeah, there was a 100-day genocide committed by Hutu extremists back in 1994.

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Magneto as a, uh, a refugee from Darfur, a Magneto as a refugee from the W- Rwandan genocide.

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Vietnam, the Bangladesh Liberation War.

The early 90s had a spike with the Rwandan Genocide and the Yugoslav Wars.

Today's death toll is high compared to the 2000s, but it's not historically unprecedented.

So the world

Genocide, ethnic cleansing, massacres.

UCDP tracks these separately because the dynamics are different from battle deaths.

The Rwandan genocide is the canonical example.

Most of the victims weren't combatants.