Oh that sixteen year old Palestinian boy was burned alive

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114. And the Hutu and Tutsi are both Bantu

In fact the two terms were pretty much interchangeable though their history; the hard-and-fast definitions are a product of belgian rule, where census-takers wanted one group to be one group, and separate from the other... So the colonial government came up with a completely arbitrary standard of measurement - Anyone with more than ten cows became a Tutsi.

"They've been fighting for thousands of years" is as much nonsensical western bullshit to excuse inaction over (or worse, support for) genocide in Africa as it is in the Middle East. Both conflicts are very recent, both can be traced directly to European rule and interference in these territories, and both showcase what happens when an outside power empowers and arms minorities in a territory to rule over -and against - the majorities. "oh, they've always been doing that" is simply dismissive dehumanizing bullshit.

it's also staggeringly hypocritical, given Europe's history...