"An earlier example of Hitchens' disregard for non-official victims can be seen by looking back at a column he wrote for the Nation on October 19, 1992. In it Hitchens ridiculed the attempt being made that year by some progressives, including David Dellinger, to remember the mass murder of Native Americans during the 500th anniversary of the beginning of the Columbian era.
From the essay "The Politics of Genocide Scholarship" by David Stannard in Is The Holocaust Unique? edited by Alan S. Rosenbaum (Westview, 1996):"
You had to go back to 1992? 9 years ago? Come on, Mark! You can do better than that!
Peter