Leaving out US complicity.

This is from a much larger article on the decline of deaths through warfare since the end of the cold war. But what grabbed me were these two paragraphs.

Genocide is defined as the murder of groups because of their ethnicity, religion or nationality. Politicides are communal victims in opposition to a regime or dominant group.

The post World War II "high point" for such murders was in the late 1980s in Afghanistan, El Salvador, Uganda, Iran and El Salvador, according to political scientist Barbara Harff, now at the U.S. Naval Academy.

Let's see, late second term Reagan, Bush I.... Afghanistan, El Salvador, and Iran.

Proven US Intelligence involvement in supplying weapons and "technical" assistance in all three countries. And this article calls it genocide. Just interesting.

Sorry for the bizarre inclusion in today's Plame speculations, but my first political awareness came about reading the NYTimes reporting on the "dirty wars" in Central America during Reagan/Bush. (by the way, El Salvador twice in the article is theirs, not mine)