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We're seeking something like 20-25k dead in the last 6 weeks - 1/57th of the entire population killed or wounded. What are you thinking of that exceeds that?
likely, even worse if you count the missing there's around 12 million of them according to beijing and they're getting mass murdered all throughout the years. The thing is, to them it doesn't last six weeks per year
I'm assuming you're all talking about the Uyghur genocide. I wouldn't downplay it for a second, but the simple reality is that they're not being exterminated through a rapid act of carpet bombing by high-powered airstrikes, the degree and brutality of the killing going on in Gaza right now is unlike anything I've seen in my entire life. To cleave to the point here, which is, "do other ongoing genocides exceed this one in terms of killing of civilians".
It may be the case that the long-term death toll is higher, considering how many years it's been happening, though downplaying what's happening in Gaza on that basis, I mean, let's not wait for that comparison to flip.