Genocide: criminal misuse of the ultimate horror

Republished today in light of the South African blood libel

Homs, Syria (above). Death and destruction by the hands of the Assad regime. Civilian casualties sought and obtained by the thousands. Murder on a mass scale.  A showcase for the evil of man towards man. But one thing it was not: Genocide.  There was no attempt to eliminate an entire ethnic or other human grouping.

Assad’s motives - and those of the Russ…