tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-696028262098687496.post9131091053107729819..comments2023-07-21T05:03:20.759-07:00Comments on Adrenoverse: Uncomfortable TruthsAdrenoversehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06499560426870271938noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-696028262098687496.post-52996589766607865692015-05-04T20:25:43.981-07:002015-05-04T20:25:43.981-07:00Here's the thing, Germany goes to great length...Here's the thing, Germany goes to great lengths to recognize and remember the holocaust. That is why they leave the concentration camps up for future generations to see and to lay testimony to the horrors of those times... <br /><br />While the plight of the aboriginal has been an awful one throughout history because of the complete disregard by colonialists, it has changed considerably over the years... That said, the aboriginis' lot is still pitiful: seeing human beings live in river beds in a well developed western nation in the 21st century appalled me... How and why is this so..? On the subject of genocide: I think a neglect of a people through ignorance is a little different to a measured and constructed attempt at obliterating an ethnicity... I think it's important to make that distinction. <br /><br />It will be interesting to see what happens to the people of those indigenous communities when the government moves in to set up mines. Whereabouts? I visited some beautiful places and visited the Kimberley region in Australia. Fitzroy Crossing was one place that had a large indigenous community. Adrenoversehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06499560426870271938noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-696028262098687496.post-53395997530461469152015-05-02T23:33:10.381-07:002015-05-02T23:33:10.381-07:00yes indeed. I guess it's always going to be di...yes indeed. I guess it's always going to be difficult for a society to admit that it is capable of genocide. Australia at the moment is on the eve of such a discussion for example. Not of course on the nightmare scale of the Armenian genocide, but significant anyway. About 200 Indigenous communities are to be closed by the government (as a way of opening up the land for mining and other development) and the people displaced, Coupled with other cost cutting policies it amounts to the persecution of a culture. The only people calling it genocide right now are the Indigenous peoples themselves and their supporters. We will see how it evolves. Of course with 100 years since the Armenian genocide, it's more likely that as time goes by, you will see less people even aware it happened, much less care. History rolls on. Sadly<br />Paul's Pictureshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03955684905808004318noreply@blogger.com