I doubt the Irish situation, while a painful one, could be compared to either the Armenian genocide or the holocaust...
According to the Genocide Convention, they are quite comparable, allowed/carried out by different means. But, I suppose starvation isn't such a horrible death. :roll:
But I never said that the holocaust was the first genocide...Show me where i wrote that?
Show me where I said that you did.
All Im saying is that the Armenian genocide and the holocaust are diffrent.
Now you're nitpicking. Frankly, the killing off of an entire society, cultural or racial group is all the same to me .. horrible. I don't consider one to be worse than the other, both were equally saddening events for the human race.
But who has more right when it comes to british "taking over" the northern ireland..
The British had control of all of Ireland until 1921. As for Northern Ireland, if you ask the Irish, they will tell you the UK has no claim to it .. if you ask the British, they will tell you they took it, they raped the lands, killed off many of the people, so it's theirs fair and square.
As for the IRA of today .. they are not the IRA that fought honorably and heroically years ago, that accomplished a free Ireland. They are a group of thugs, involved in weapons and drug trade .. and will kill anyone, Loyalists or Republican that gets in the way. Their goal is no longer a united Ireland .. it is to make profit.[/quote]