ETHNIC CLEANSING

Quotes from “Shield of Achilles” by Phillip Bobbitt

(assigned reading from George Wythe University).

“Ethnic cleansing is thus not merely a political goal. It is a coordinated set of tactics in service of a well-thought-out military strategy…”

Ø Stage One: Isolated terrorist-type attacks on rural populations, usually in response to some contrived “crime”, driving them from their homes and towns into “safe area” refugee cities, now filled with defenseless, hungry, displaced people.
Ø Stage Two: Besiege the refugee cities, cutting off supplies, and carry on a campaign of bombardment.
Ø Stage Three: Forced surrender of the refugee cities, kill all men of military age, rape the women to humiliate the population, remove the population to resettlement camps outside of their homeland.

There is nothing new in this, just the name and players have changed over the years. It is what the Assyrians, Babylonians, and Romans all did. It is what the Americans did to the First Nation populations. It is what Hitler did. It is what led to the Extermination Order issued by Governor Boggs against the Latter-day Saints. It is what led to the Japanese internment camps during World War II. It is what has happened most recently in Bosnia and in the Darfur region of Sudan. The key element is that the population targeted for ethnic cleansing had no arms or will to defend themselves. They had been asked to give up their arms and this they freely did, not believing that there was any other motive other than to prove their innocence of whatever “crime” they were being accused. NEVER GIVE UP YOUR WEAPONS, NEVER REGISTER THEM, NEVER REVEAL ANY INFORMATION ABOUT THEM.