Found out about a new genocide today

[Luigi]

The Indonesian Bersiap killings:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bersiap

Basically if you were Chinese, Japanese, White, mixed race, or basically anything other than pure Indonesian during 1945-1947, you were killed in a mass grave. The Indo Eurasian people had just survived being put in concentration camps by Japanese in WW2, and immediately after this happened to them, which is why essentially no Indos live in Indonesia anymore and only exist in other countries.

[Megaterio Llamas]

I heard someone talking about this just this past week ranking it among the great genocides of the twentieth century.

I was not aware of it until now myself.

[Masato]

I heard someone talking about this just this past week ranking it among the great genocides of the twentieth century.

I was not aware of it until now myself.

How is that possible do you think?

Who would have benefitted from covering it up? Who might have benefitted by exposing it/making it more known?
What was at stake?

I am almost more interested in the handling of the aftermath and media response than in the genocide itself.
But of course, questions about the genocide as well

Hardcore thread.

[Luigi]

I heard someone talking about this just this past week ranking it among the great genocides of the twentieth century.

I was not aware of it until now myself.

How is that possible do you think?

Who would have benefitted from covering it up? Who might have benefitted by exposing it/making it more known?
What was at stake?

I am almost more interested in the handling of the aftermath and media response than in the genocide itself.
But of course, questions about the genocide as well

Hardcore thread.

I think it just goes to show that people dont actually care about genocides. They are happy to dismiss them as just some boring historical oddity. The true outliers are the genocides that stick in the public consciousness for decades if anything becoming more and more well known. The difference seems to be some fit within a wider narrative while others do not.

[Masato]

The 'wider narrative' is not wide, imo

[Som-Pong]

Everyone has been genocided at some point