The violence breaking out now, which has forced around 400,000 Uzbeks into exile, is a direct consequence of the many years of state-sponsored brutality which the U.S. has, for years, supported the government and police forces of Kyrgystan, despite their record of repression, torture and corruption, in return for their leasing a critical military base to the U.S. government, are ignoring this crisis precisely because it is inconvenient to the United States. Again, as DiMaggio explains, the media, ever taking their cue from the U.S. '"Īs a final note, Anthony DiMaggio, in an article today entitled, " Strategic Interests at the Empire's Periphery," explains how the unfolding human rights crisis in Kyrgystan - in which the Uzbek minority is being subject to grave acts of violence, including sexual assaults and beatings - is being largely ignored by the media. Indeed, according to the Internal Displacement Monitoring Center, citing the UN High Commission on Refugees, "lmost the entirety of the indigenous populations in Colombia has been a victim of forced displacement." As a result of this displacement, as well as other serious human rights abuses against them, the Colombian Constitutional Court itself "ruled that indigenous groups 'are in danger of being culturally and physically exterminated. And, indigenous and Afro-Colombians make up a disproportionate share of these IDPs.
There are estimated to be as many as 4 million internally displaced people (IDPs) in Colombia. Colombia has the second largest internally-displaced population in the world, only second to Darfur. As a result, these killings could not, by definition of those who control the political discourse, be considered "genocide." While Herman & Peterson do not treat with Colombia, this is another example of the double-standard applied to the "genocide" question. and its allies, in their rapacious need for the rare minerals in the DRC, bear large responsibility for the killings there. And again, there was an easy explanation for this - the U.S. However, as with Iraq, the DRC also rarely received the stigma of a "genocide" label. This figure itself may be old, for, as Nicholas Kristoff recently reported in The New York Times, the figure by now may be closer to 7 million dead. and allied forces in Iraq was in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) where, according to Herman and Peterson, 5.4 million civilians have been killed in the ongoing hostilities there. As Herman and Peterson note, the only country in the world where more civilians were murdered than by U.S.
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