"The Native population (in the US) suffered a migrant crisis of an incredible kind … where the immigrants come in with the intention of exterminating and expelling the population... Should they institute war crimes trials...? It would not make a lot of sense. It would make a lot of sense to bring out understanding of what happened, to call for reparations and so on... Is it genocide? … The Western hemisphere had about 80 million people when Columbus arrived, and pretty soon about 90 percent of them were gone (killed)."
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Noam Chomsky in Noam Chomsky: How the US “Politically Vulgarizes” Genocide and War Crimes, by Pitasanna Shanmugathas, Truthout (27 November 2018)
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