Interesting thread here.
I don’t like this word, like “terrorists”, “regime”, or others that have been abused(, the so-called uyghur “genocide” also comes to mind, despicable liars working against world peace/collaboration). A massacre is enough of an accusation to act, Israel says that it isn’t a genocide because the rate of killing isn’t quick enough, w/e…
On Myanmar, a lot of things happened, especially a month ago, wiki article :
It’s always about “punishment” for genocide when the west accuses nations of genocide. But based on past history of the west, weirdly enough they never seemed to be punished for any of the genocides they caused. It’s almost like they just use it as a political buzzword to scare the common folk into supporting embargoes on enemy nations or something.
Yeah, a buzzword with legal implications, Myanmar’s rebels are terrorists, good for them.
terrorist and rebel are also meaningless buzzwords when used by the west!
