Khajur
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Khajur, buddy - since you are such a Wiki-expert - what does your favourite Wikipedia say about "Pogroms" in its commonly understood, narrowly and rather specifically defined context of the word?
Riots against the Huguenot might have been classified as "pogroms", but do people commonly classify the French Revolution as a pogrom?
The Cultural Revolution was a quasi-civil war, wide-spread social unrest, class war gone haywire ... I can tell you, even in Tibet, the turmoil that resulted in wide-spread destruction of cultural/religious institutions was carried out overwhelmingly by lower-class Tibetans at the explicit instigation of CCP cadres.
Without minimizing their own inherent evil, none of the above fits the accepted definition of "pogroms".
You'd be on firmer grounds if you were to argue that had there been multiple ethnicities residing in Eastern China, then Mao would, in all probabilities, not have been above instigating a "pogrom" or two to achieve whatever he deemed necessary to achieve.
Therefore, the lack of pogroms in contemporary China was more due to circumstances than to "moral superiority" per se. We'll see about Xinjiang's development in the next few decades ...
Having said that, we judge people on their responsibilities in actual crimes - and not on what "they might have done" if given the "opportunity".
On that note, what do you call the hunting down of ethnic Sikhs by voting lists in the capital of the Union for killing, burning, and rape?
All the while the dictatorial power of the state did nothing, if not passively/actively participated?
Let me repeat what I said: in death, Madam Gandhi "managed" to unleash one of the worst pogroms since WW II - to date.
Peace.
Mr oceanx...for person of chinese origin ,u certainly surprise me with relatively good knowledge about, both india and the English language ,but i have to suggest that u do need some further refinements on both the same accounts .
This is what the Oxford dictionary says about meaning of the word "pogrom"
A n. 1. An organized massacre in Russia, orig. and esp. of Jews. E20.
2 .gen. An organized, officially tolerated, attack on any community or group. E20.
B v.t. Massacre or destroy in a pogrom. E20. pogromist n. an organizer of or participant in a pogrom E20.
Now let me restate ur own quote about chinese cultural revolution:
The Cultural Revolution was a quasi-civil war, wide-spread social unrest, class war gone haywire ... I can tell you, even in Tibet, the turmoil that resulted in wide-spread destruction of cultural/religious institutions was carried out overwhelmingly by lower-class Tibetans at the explicit instigation of CCP cadres
Obiviously u would agree that those CCP cadres were acting upon the explicit instructions from the ruling communist party of china under the dictatorship of chairman Mao.
So now dont just try fool us with the english name "Cultural Revolution" ...while u know it very well its nothing like to be classifed the with the "French revolution".
whatever reasons may lie behind its origin...in the end it turned out be a state
sponsored communist party massacre and can be aptly called a "pogrom" where by some accounts milions got persecuted and died as a result of it .
Also stop playing twisting words and its meaning to justify ur initial faulty assertions by calling a sikh riot ,the worst pogrom since WWII , while ur country china sits on the heap of tens of thousands of dead bodies in socalled massacred of chinese "Cultural Revolution".