Topic on Talk:List of atrocities committed by the United States of America
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At the start of the article, a working definition of types of atrocities can be provided, for example basic definitions of genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity, etc. (I will put my suggestion at the end of this post). | At the start of the article, a working definition of types of atrocities can be provided, for example basic definitions of genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity, etc. (I will put my suggestion at the end of this post). | ||
Then, instead of the main headings being types of atrocities, instead the headings can be world regions, such as continents, and subheadings can narrow it down to countries, regions, and specific events and people groups. | Then, instead of the main headings being types of atrocities, instead the headings can be world regions, such as continents, and subheadings can narrow it down to countries, regions, and specific events and people groups and atrocities that happened to them. | ||
This way, I think the full breadth of atrocities that have been done to a certain region or group can be seen in their historical context, and the continuity of the US impact on a region or people can be seen. I think separating each section by "atrocity type" creates a broken continuity that removes the atrocity from their context, reducing them to mere statistics that do not explain the issue dialectically. It also causes the editor/writer to have to personally make the call themselves whether to specifically define something as an act of genocide or not, a war crime or not, etc. | This way, I think the full breadth of atrocities that have been done to a certain region or group can be seen in their historical context, and the continuity of the US impact on a region or people can be seen. I think separating each section by "atrocity type" creates a broken continuity that removes the atrocity from their context, reducing them to mere statistics that do not explain the issue dialectically. It also causes the editor/writer to have to personally make the call themselves whether to specifically define something as an act of genocide or not, a war crime or not, etc. | ||