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Re:Stanford launches Archive of the Military Tribunal at Nur... by lostlogin on Saturday June 03, 2023 @04:15AM (#36174723)
> all the major powers had committed similar atrocities in their own pasts

The Soviets for sure, but are you really arguing that the US and UK (and Empire) were operating on the same industrial level? Incidents that come to mind for me would include the Bengal famine, and it was terrible, but it wasn't the systematic and controlled killing at which the Soviets and Nazis became so expert.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/29/winston-church...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bengal_famine_of_1943

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Re:Stanford launches Archive of the Military Tribunal at Nur... by hn976827 on Saturday June 03, 2023 @06:04AM (#36175256)
> are you really arguing that the US and UK (and Empire) were operating on the same industrial level?

The slave trade was certainly an industrial level, yes.

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Re:Stanford launches Archive of the Military Tribunal at Nur... by sillywalk on Saturday June 03, 2023 @01:22PM (#36178549)
Not the same level, but genocide of indigenous people, human experiments, eugenics, the whole process of colonization.

The Brits invented the modern concentration camp during the Boer War.

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