rhabarba@feddit.de to World News@lemmy.ml · 11 months agoIs Israel’s Gaza war the deadliest conflict for children in modern times?www.aljazeera.comexternal-linkmessage-square13fedilinkarrow-up195arrow-down115
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minus-squarejordanlund@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up13·11 months agoI would imagine the genocides in Bosnia or Rwanda were worse… but are they counting that as “modern times”. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bosnian_genocide https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rwandan_genocide
minus-squarelivus@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up4·edit-211 months agoYes those are worse using their deaths per day metric, but they don’t seem to be going before 2008, or looking at civilian on civilian.
minus-squarejordanlund@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up8·11 months agoThat’s the problem with getting old… "Bosnia and Rwanda, that was, what? 10? 12 years ago?.. (looks up Wikipedia) 1992, 1994, 1995… yeah, so, like 10-12 years ago… tops…"
minus-squarelivus@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up5·11 months agoI know! Or people talk about how they love old movies… like Fight Club. The problem for-real though is you end up with all this knowledge about how things went down and you realise half the people you’re talking to don’t know about any of that.
I would imagine the genocides in Bosnia or Rwanda were worse… but are they counting that as “modern times”.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bosnian_genocide
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rwandan_genocide
Yes those are worse using their deaths per day metric, but they don’t seem to be going before 2008, or looking at civilian on civilian.
That’s the problem with getting old… "Bosnia and Rwanda, that was, what? 10? 12 years ago?..
(looks up Wikipedia) 1992, 1994, 1995… yeah, so, like 10-12 years ago… tops…"
I know! Or people talk about how they love old movies… like Fight Club.
The problem for-real though is you end up with all this knowledge about how things went down and you realise half the people you’re talking to don’t know about any of that.