Comments on: Social justice is environmental justice http://www.studlife.com/forum/2009/11/16/social-justice-is-environmental-justice/ The independent newspaper of Washington University in St. Louis Sun, 21 Mar 2010 14:42:03 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: John Brown http://www.studlife.com/forum/2009/11/16/social-justice-is-environmental-justice/comment-page-1/#comment-4162 John Brown Tue, 17 Nov 2009 23:35:40 +0000 http://www.studlife.com/?p=7373#comment-4162 Marienau's lists Cambodia, Darfur, and Rwanda as some of of the "the greatest civil rights offenses in the last few decades." That is true. Conspicuously absent, however, are the U.S. genocides perpetuated during the identical historical period. American power tore Indochina to shreds, exterminating several million people. Paramount U.S. support for the Indonesian invasion of East Timor caused a number of deaths comparable to that murdered by the Khmer Rouge. And the sanctions on Iraq during the '90's---extinguishing the lives of anywhere between 500,000 to a million people(many of them children) ---amounted to collective punishment on a genocidal scale. These regularly unmentioned tragedies have been relegated to the dustbin of history. But forgetting cannot wash away our sins. We must always remind ourselves of those victims of American terrorist atrocities whose blood will forever cover hands. Marienau’s lists Cambodia, Darfur, and Rwanda as some of of the “the greatest civil rights offenses in the last few decades.” That is true. Conspicuously absent, however, are the U.S. genocides perpetuated during the identical historical period. American power tore Indochina to shreds, exterminating several million people. Paramount U.S. support for the Indonesian invasion of East Timor caused a number of deaths comparable to that murdered by the Khmer Rouge. And the sanctions on Iraq during the ’90’s—extinguishing the lives of anywhere between 500,000 to a million people(many of them children) —amounted to collective punishment on a genocidal scale.

These regularly unmentioned tragedies have been relegated to the dustbin of history. But forgetting cannot wash away our sins. We must always remind ourselves of those victims of American terrorist atrocities whose blood will forever cover hands.

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