South African Boer Genocide

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I know people are conditioned to be anti-racists, and that is well appreciated by an Armenian from Ethiopia whose ancestors did play a role in ousting the Mussolini fascists. It is appreciated coming from an Armenian from Ethiopia who is sympathetic to the plight of all oppressed peoples.

 

However, for those raised in North America, I would also request that we suspend our politically correct conditioning and consider that there are genocides taking place where the tragic role of victim is now legitimately on the one who was labeled as the oppressor. I would debate to no end that the Boer of South Africa were not the actual oppressors of Black Africans and were a population who settled in mostly unoccupied land, save for the Bushmen and Khoi Khoi tribes, who were not mistreated nevertheless.

 

I will also continue to say, despite all conditioned rhetoric, that, ironically, the entire concept of Apartheid, prior to it being hijacked by unsavory elements (whose ascendency to power only began upon losing the Anglo-Boer wars) in the late 19th century, was a mutual agreement among the players of the area such as the Zulu, Swazi, Xhosa, Lesotho and other tribes in addition to the Boer. The Boer had apparently earned the right of survival upon resisting a massacre at the hands of the Zulu despite having been severely outnumbered on their first attempts to settle the Transvaal and Orange regions in the north. Thus, the history of the region as it is simplistically portrayed as "whites oppressing blacks" is too far from reality to even begin to take seriously. The Boer are, regardless of the political meandering of outside interlopers, as native (and perhaps more so) than the Bantu, the Zulu, the Tswana, and others, with the exception of the Khoisan and Bushmen.

 

I type these from memory and will make corrections as I reacquaint myself with the fascinating and complex history of this region, but suffice it to say this: That the perpetual demonization of the Boer is unjustified is a gross understatement.

 

It is also ironic that the natives of the area, Khoi Khoi/Khoisan (otherwise known as the Hottentot) were also driven out prior to the arrival of the Boer/Dutch by the various Bantu tribes mostly originating in the area roughly encompassing the Congos and Angola. The Zulu wars waged against various peoples (supposedly including a Jewish contingent as recalled in semi-legendary accounts about Shaka Zulu's exploits) that some estimate had covered the entire Rift Valley and Eastern Costline, perhaps even up to Beria, Somalia, claims many genocides in its path, long before the arrival of the Boer.

 

With this in mind, I would like to propose that we Armenians have a leadership role in genocide prevention and the breaking of this strange silence about the "Stage 5" genocide alert in South Africa, a reality of a 5th phase in preparation of genocide as classified by Genocide Watch. It seems to be the most silently waged war against an ethnic group since the Armenian genocide began its darkest hours arguably in 1898 under the Hamidiye, culminating into full scale policy driven genocide in 1915.

 

Here's the Genocide Watch article:

 

http://www.genocidewatch.org/southafrica.html

 

For ten years, Genocide Watch has been the only international human rights group willing to declare an Alert about the high murder rate of Boer farmers, perhaps because it is not “politically correct” to defend the rights of people who once supported apartheid. Genocide Watch is opposed to all forms of racism, from whatever the source. The President of Genocide Watch actively supported the anti-apartheid movement in constitutional consultations with the United Democratic Front when he was a Fulbright Professor of Law in Swaziland. He has visited South Africa several times since and will soon visit again.

According to the Genocide Watch 8 stages of Genocide, South Africa remains at stage 5: Polarization.

 

http://www.sundaytimes.lk/100328/International/int_17.html

 

The camps of squatters now exceeds a population of 600,000, which illustrates the reality of economic oppression of a formerly lower-middle class population of whites who were hardly "exploiting" anyone to begin with. This also demonstrates the foolishness of "color based" politics that leaves around 4.5 million in the crosshairs of a budding genocidal regime and political structure. Boers specifically are systematically disallowed participation in civil service and the private sector and have been almost totally unemployable. This is clear cut targeted genocide of a specific group. This is not merely "white versus black" as the race pundits will undoubtedly argue, but a dangerous and real genocide in its preparatory stages. Otherwise, a legitimate genocide prevention organization such as Genocide Watch would not get involved.

 

 

 

In Zimbabwe, next door, Robert Mugabe's government has already been implicated in being complicit and supportive of the murder of especially white farmers, yet this has not taken on the same alarming and large scale potential for genocidal intent. The various ANC related power brokers of South Africa are now openly chanting the call for genocide, and "Kille the Boer" is now a regularly performed party hymn. Even the most die-hard anti-Apartheid activist has to admit that no such behavior was ever exhibited by the former Apartheid regime.

 

A cursory search on "Kill the Boer" as a EFF party motto yields these results. https://www.google.com/#q=kill+the+boer

 

For a while in the 1990s, also, there had been massive amounts of killings of Christian Ethiopians particularly in Muslim Oromo controlled territory such as the Bale region, but the world stayed silent until the majority of the Christin Amara population was all but eliminated from the area to make way for the semi-independent "Oromiya" state.

 

Amnesty International's single entry for South Africa, for example, deals with homosexuals being mistreated by the police or police brutality in general, but the impending Stage 5 genocide potential is ignored.

 

http://www.amnestyusa.org/our-work/countries/africa/south-africa