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Is Israel’s Gaza war the deadliest conflict for children in modern times? (www.aljazeera.com)

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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..."

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Or weren't even ALIVE for it...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

There are adults here now who weren't alive when Fight Club came out either!

But yeah just the other day we were talking about Freedom Fries and some people didn't realise it had been a real phenomenon. They thought it was just a joke.