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To: lizol

Napoleon shot 5000 Ottoman POW during the Egyptian campaign.

Are you aware of backround of the event?

Was that a genocide by your opinion?

24 posted on 10/31/2007 5:30:56 AM PDT by Freelance Warrior (The barbarian)

To: Freelance Warrior

As you said - I’m not aware of background of the event.

If he did it, because he didn’t want to keep them as POWs, neither to free them - that would be a crime of war.

If he did it, because they were OTTOMAN POWs - that would be a genocide.

Definitely that was a crime against humanity.

26 posted on 10/31/2007 6:14:47 AM PDT by lizol (Liberal - a man with his mind open ... at both ends)

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