"Scream Bloody Murder" The Most Horrifying Genocides of the 20th & 21st Century

While Barbara Walters was breathlessly sharing with the world her "Ten Most Fascinating People of 2008" - which most people already knew about or could make an educated guess about - no doubt a big ad and ratings holiday special, Christiane Amanpour had a much more important telecast about genocide entitled "Scream Bloody Murder".  Whatever anyone's political persuasion might be, Amanpour has credibility in great part because she has reported with passion and called attention to many of these horrors.

Amanpour focused on the voices of people who tried desperately to wake a slumbering or detached world to impending human disasters during the Holocaust, the slaughter of the Armenians, Cambodia's killing fields, Saddam Hussein's gassing of the Kurds and others, Bosnia, Rwanda and now Sudan and Darfur.  Amanpour points to decisions made for political and national interests - not bombing the train lines that carried Holocaust victims to the death camps, not intervening sooner in Bosnia or at all in Rwanda, for example. 

Amanpour doesn't mention some other genocides - such as that in the Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin, by Chairman Mao in China or by Kim Jong Il in Morth Korea.  Perhaps this is because it was their own country men and women and not a more specific minority group targeted - but these horrors deserve to be highlighted so that we indeed never forget. 

One would like to hear a discussion of Iraq being liberated from Saddam Hussein vis-a-vis the costs to the US and the Iranians or Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher and Pope John Paul II pushing for the end of the Soviet Union. 

Also, will Barack Obama who has congratulated himself for calling the Iraq invasion that took out vicious dictator Saddam Hussein a "dumb idea" in a speech he made as a state senator act in a cautious manner to current and future genocides - particularly in Africa?  Will he use force as Richard Holbrooke said was necessary in his "Bombs for Peace" campaign for the Balkans - and what reaction will he receive? 

Comments

[Eric]

One has to provide information about the genocides in a fair, objective context so that the viewers can digest and reach their own conclusions rather then imposing his/her own judgment on the tragedies that is journalism other wise its just a propaganda and that’s what I got from the program.
It perhaps should’ve started in North America, genocide that was committed on Native American over 20 million Natives were killed just because of their race.
Vietnam War 3 million people were killed mostly civilians versus 55.000 American servicemen.
Ottoman era she never mentioned the over 600.000 Turks and Kurds that were slaughter by Armenians
I expected more from her, disappointed say the least….