Genocide denial :: Mmegi Online

Genocide is as old as the Bible, in the Book of Genesis (6:17–19), God decides “to destroy all flesh in which is the breath of life from under heaven,” with the exception of Noah and a nucleus of human and animal life.

But the concept of annihilation of a people that pose as an obstacle is not just documented in the Bible; Greek Mythology supports this to; Homer quotes King Agamemnon’s quintessential pronouncement of root-and-branch genocide, stating;“We are not going to leave a single one of them alive, down to the babies in their mothers’ wombs – not even they must live.

The whole people must be wiped out of existence, and none be left to think of them and shed a tear.” Leo Kuper put it succinctly in his seminal 1981 text of genocide studies when he stated on Genocide; “The word is new, the concept is ancient”.

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