> we haven't committed a genocide or mass killing since the indian removal act in the 1800s. nta but i would have to respectfully disagree with that, because the methods used to crush the insurgency in the philippines were genocidal. partisans cannot survive and operate on their own. underground factories or foreign smugglers are needed to supply them with weapons, ammunition, and medicine. spies are needed to supply them with intelligence, so they know where to be to ambush patrols or soft targets. but most importantly, whether through willing support or coercion, they depend on civilians to supply them with food. looking on at the successful british suppression of the boer insurgency, america built concentration camps for the rural philippine population, completely emptied out the countryside, slaughtered all livestock, and burned down all farmland.  this predictably led to famine, and while people weren't starving to death, they were severely malnourished and in overcrowded unsanitary conditions. so disease, particularly typhus, spread through the camps like fire through dry grass or oil. this did crush the insurgency, but the number of civilians who died in these camps is estimated at over 200,000. there was never any official inquiry into this, and no justice was ever delivered for this grotesque crime against humanity. as a curious aside, america declared victory against the insurgency three separate times, exactly the same as would happen in iraq a century later.
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