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Message: <blockquote data-quote="roberto" data-source="post: 411215" data-attributes="member: 5096">The 'you' was not referring to you personally.Of course, you are correct when you say that political spin defines things to the viewpoint of the masses. One man's terrorist, etc.I still believe that in this case, the complications of the war, and the difficulties this posed in enabling anything major to be done about the famine provide a large amount of mitigation against any charge of genocide in this instance. Whether Churchhill lost sleep or not (again, I suspect you are right), he didn't intentionally set out harm the Bengali people.Were the Zimbabwe example to become a reality, and Mugabe to hinder/prevent supplies reaching the affected, that would be more akin to genocide.Hell, that's already happened.</blockquote>