Over 80% of the Tutsi population was killed in 100 days in the Rwandan Genocide.
That was between 800,000-1,000,000 people in just 100 days.
To put that into perspective a little, the most efficient death camp that the Nazis operated was Treblinka. Treblinka killed about 870,000-950,000 people in just over one year (operated between July 1942-August 1943).
To extrapolate that a little bit, Treblinka operated for about 13 months.
870,000/13=66,923.0769 deaths per month
950,000/13=73,076.923 deaths per month
Rwanda was just 100 days, or 3 months.
800,000/3=266,666.667 deaths per month
1,000,000/3=333,333.333 deaths per month
On the low end in Rwanda they were killing 200,000 more people per month than in Treblinka. I cannot express this enough about how quick and devastating the Rwandan Genocide was in sheer scale and magnitude.
For comparison sake (I hate this part): In Gaza over 3 years (36 months) we have had a total of about 73,900 reported deaths out of a population of 2,230,000, or 3.3%.
73,900/36=2,052.778 deaths per month
73,900/266,666.667=0.277*
On the low end in Rwanda there were nearly 264,000 more deaths per month than in Gaza. Again, almost the entire Tutsi population was killed in just 100 days. *Not just that, Gaza would account for just 27.7% of the total deaths in one month in Rwanda.
We have no other possible reasonable inference to the magnitude of destruction of a protected group (Tutsi) other than genocide in Rwanda. The law is very clear on this and we should be thankful for the work of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda and what they did to bring justice and accountability.
I really do not think people understand exactly what genocide is, how it works, and how abundantly clear it is for us who actually practice this area of law to understand that Gaza does not at all meet the legal elements of the crime of genocide. You cannot prove to a fully conclusive standard that Israel's intent is to destroy, in whole or in part, a protected group (Palestinians), because of their membership in the group. It is not plausible unless you fundamentally change everything we know about what genocide is.
.@billburr criticizes corporations' reaction to Luigi Mangione's killing of a health care CEO:
“The response to the Luigi [Mangione] thing. It wasn’t ‘Maybe we need to look at what we’re doing if it makes some crazy person do this.’ [Healthcare executives’] response was to take their faces off the internet and get security. It’s like, you don’t think you need to examine this? You’re not the president. You’re just the CEO of a business.”
The jewish holiday Yom Kippur starts with a troubling prayer called Kol Nidre. It's a preemptive legal declaration that automatically cancels all personal oaths, promises, and vows. In simple terms, it allows jews to treat their words like garbage and cheat their spiritual obligations for the next 12 months.
Because of this exact loophole, Western and Islamic courts for centuries viewed the Kol Nidre with immense suspicion. They argued that if a community's most sacred holiday began with a formal legal decree wiping away their oaths for the next year, then a secular court could never trust a jew's testimony under oath in a legal trial or business contract.
European states even implemented the 'jewish Oath' (More Judaico). This was a separate court ritual that forced jewish merchants and witnesses to stand in front of a court and swear terrifying curses upon themselves before their testimony was legally accepted.
Yom Kippur also includes blood and animal ritual sacrifice.
The jewish story states that the priest would sacrifice a young bull and sprinkle its blood on the 'Mercy Seat' inside the 'Holy of Holies' in the 'temple'. This was supposed to atone for the 'priestly bloodline'.
Then 2 identical goats were sacrificed for the jewish people. One slaughtered inside the temple and its blood also splattered inside. The second goat, called the scapegoat, would be dropped off a jaggered cliff– alive.
The Mishnah (Tractate Yoma 6:6) records that the drop was so severe the animal was shattered into pieces before it even reached halfway down the mountain.
There's more.
After the blood rituals, two rams would be burnt on the outdoor altar. This is called a Korban Olah: a Burnt Offering.
Today, jews fast, pray, and some swing a chicken around their heads (Kapparot) instead. But most are not content. They want to build their animal and blood sacrifice ritual temple.
And they want to build it on the 3rd holiest site in Islam: the blessed Al-Aqsa mosque.
@SammyPickles96@souljagoyteller Third of all, Yom Kippur has been a major holiday for over 3,000 years. Why should Jews, half of whom don't live in Israel, stop celebrating a holiday of a fictional genocide?
@SammyPickles96@souljagoyteller First of all, don't call me Mr.
Second of all, doesn't matter what kind of holidays Muslims do that isn't atonement since they still celebrate many of ones when still committing those atrocities. And hypocrisy to not call them out while doing so against Jews.
@SammyPickles96@souljagoyteller Okay. So will this also apply to Arabs/Muslims where they're committing genocide, slavery, women and religious apartheid, homophobic crimes, and racism too?
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okay I just realized after checking Instagram that i'm 99% sure that Soe Noire person is a former coworker of mine who burned down their apartment with candles then told their roommate they were a victim too when they were understandably upset
More Ukrainians died in Mariupol alone in less than a year than people died in decades of Israel Palestine conflict. Anyone who prioritizes Gaza over Ukraine (or Sudan, or Congo) is either an idiot or a paid propagandist. Or maybe both.