Content warning: extreme violence / genocide
To say men or boys have never been killed because of their gender is an affront to the hundreds of thousands who have lost their lives for that very reason.
It is an insult, and bigotry at the very highest level.
It further erases the memory of those lost, the suffering of their loved ones, and allows history to repeat.
So to those who say ‘misogyny kills, misandry irritates’, go see the Srenbrenica Genocide memorial, or walk amongst broken families of the Anfal Campaign.
Why not go visit Axum in Ethiopia, or Kashmir today – as it’s still happening.
Gendered violence against men is at the heart of some of the most tragic genocides of the last fifty years, and just because we don’t hear about them, doesn’t mean they aren’t happening.
So is it time we talked about how, where and why men and boys are so often systematically killed?
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Sources
Anfal Genocide
https://tinyurl.com/y7k25j9n
https://tinyurl.com/2p8rmu63
Srenbrenica
https://tinyurl.com/w6sbwu6k
https://tinyurl.com/n79ue5ny
Bangladesh
https://tinyurl.com/4czybk94
https://tinyurl.com/2p8ccjxz
Axum
https://tinyurl.com/yckuhtf2
https://tinyurl.com/3bwe5xk9
Boko Haram
https://tinyurl.com/yvnu3j6c
https://tinyurl.com/nhbk8u6d
Charlie Hebdo
https://tinyurl.com/2p8try6z