Robert Fisk

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Wed Oct 3 12:17:44 PDT 2001


Miles Jackson wrote:


>On Wed, 3 Oct 2001, Carrol Cox wrote:
>
>> It takes something far more than killing a few thousand people to
>> constitute a crime against humanity. Let's maintain some chastity of
>> language.
>>
>> Carrol
>>
>
>Why set the bar so high? Can we really provide a quantitative,
>operational definition of crimes against humanity? Should we?

I'm wondering if underlying Carrol's definition is the restriction that only imperial powers can commit CAHs. That true Carrol?

Doug



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