Dr Polya's flippant abuse of the term "genocide" is out of character and most alarming; 
joining George Bush and the Whitehouse effort by trivializing the term genocide which is a GRAVE inhuman crime of denial. 
 
Iraqi, Afghanistan, and the Stolen generation are serious issues in their own rights and should not be belittled by in an apparent effort to paint Australians as wicked evil beings because of silly comments by PM John Howard. 
 
I referred earlier to George Bush and the Whitehouse abuse of the germ "genocide" - by which I refer to his POLITICAL use of Darfur as a means to devalue the legal term genocide, and to divert good NGO and media attention away from the GENOCIDE which his own university was endorsing a report about; 
 
The genocide which Bechtel, Freeport McMoRan and George Bush want kept hidden: 
"Indonesian Human Rights Abuses in West Papua: 
Application of the Law of Genocide to the History of Indonesian Control" 
- a report by the Yale University Law School on the US funded Indonesian genocide of West Papua by Indonesian massacres, extrajudicial killings, torture, disappearances, police detention, violence including rape only of the Papuan women, US & Indonesian resource exploitation, forced relocation and labor, and the infamous Transmigration racial replacement scheme by the Indonesian government and settlers. 
 
The Armenian people under the Young Turks, the Jewish people under the Nazi state, the victims of the Khmer Rouge, and the people of West Papua today share the experience of several inhuman acts; 
they were selected by their 'States' to be eliminated (like insects); 
they were denied escape or voice as they were moved like cattle; 
the rest of the society did nothing to prevent or stop this; 
the government, society, and their business partners around the world denied any crime had/or is still occuring (death in West Papua, denial of Armenian value). 
 
There was no civil war, these people were not victims of combat; people were sent specifically to round up these civilian people ; treated as sub-human. 
 
The crime of genocide is that a government and its society denies the value of human life of the ethnic group they did not want; denied freedom of speech, freedom of political assembly, movement, and life. 
 
The people of the United States have not heard about West Papua because people like George Bush are profiteering from this genocide - even the US Congressmen who two years ago tried to ask questions by writting Section 1115 were silently disregarded as Mr Bush's friends at Bechtel Inc. and Freeport McMoRan and Exxon used their "US Indonesia Society" lobby to have the US Senate delete the entire Section of the bill. 
 
In West Papua's case the genocide is part of a colonization program, a foreign military from 4000Km away, from Asia. 
 
But the real problem is DENIAL, denial of a voice.

Guest