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Re:Data Scientist Rebekah Jones, Facing Arrest, Turns Hersel... by justinclift on Monday January 18, 2021 @02:36PM (#25825629)
> ... the US has killed more innocents in the Middle East over lies than China is even accused of imprisoning in Xinjiang.

This confuses me. Isn't the # of people being imprisoned in Xinjiang in excess of a million? That seems like a higher number (that I'm aware of) have been killed in the Middle East by the US in their wars over the last few decades. (?)

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Re:Data Scientist Rebekah Jones, Facing Arrest, Turns Hersel... by sudosysgen on Monday January 18, 2021 @02:48PM (#25825787)
The US has killed in excess of a million people in the Middle East. Around 650 000 people died as a result of the Iraq War, around 50 000 in Afghanistan, around 400 000 in Syria and around 20 000 in Lybia.

Of course, neither were purely by the US but rather by a Coalition, but none of them would have happened if it wasn't for the US.

I also include deaths from destruction of infrastructure and subsequent power vacuums, as is customary for crimes against humanity.

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Re:Data Scientist Rebekah Jones, Facing Arrest, Turns Hersel... by selimthegrim on Wednesday January 20, 2021 @03:09AM (#25843826)
When China gets through sterilizing half of Xinjiang we’ll see what bears out in the population growth statistics
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