Mgunn, I share your frustration but at the same time I'm aware that this isn't an academic exercise.  Knowledge doesn't exist in isolation from the real world.  We're not engaged in describing a herbarium specimen.  We're dealing with an event that has destroyed and continues to destroy people's lives.

We need to distinguish between attempts to promote a biased account of history and the irruption of understandable and proper anger when experience is being traduced. We're in the immensely privileged position of being able to take a relatively detached position, we should be careful how we judge the actions of others.