Us And Taliban To Open Direct Peace Talks In Qatar

[naomi24]

A good thing - or not?

[Zeuhl]

em

i think you are still at cross purposes

We were debating whether the Germans started to 'erase' people before or after the start of ww2

Concentration Camps did exist pre war, they did abuse and torture people and people did die in them

However, the mass 'erasure' only began in the Extermination Camps built from 1942 onwards.

For one thing, the most well known such as Auschwitz-Berkenau were in Poland, so they could not have existed pre war could they?

[emmie]

how did people not notice, seeing as how near this was to Munich. Dachau Concentration camp.


http://history1900s.about.com/od/1930s/a/Dachau.htm

[Zeuhl]

I think they did.

But it wasn't an Extermination Camp - so no gas chambers or crematoria

Towards the end of the war, some inmates were dying from malnutrition but the only deliberate large scale killings at Dachau were right at the end when the Germans moved prisoners east and massacred those unfit to travel

[emmie]

they did build one according to the link, but it was never used.

[Zeuhl]

That could well be right em

I think as the war progressed and turned against them they accelerated extermination but kept it all in the east, outside Germany

[emmie]

they did build one at Dachau as i said, that was in the last link, but it wasn't used, never mind eh, they built them elsewhere, and they called these people civilised...

[emmie]

Since this was a concentration camp and not a death camp, there were no gas chambers installed at Dachau until 1942, when one was built but not used.

[keyplus90]

OK, Taliban are not good people then. Why are USA and Co so keen to have a dialogue (or negotiate) with people who are not good? I thought it was USA and Co's principle that they would never talk or negotiate with terrorists. So here is the question,

Are Taliban terrorists or not?

[naomi24]

Some think so.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2013/06/20/pol-taliban-talks-canada.html

[naomi24]

Keyplus, as usual, instead of responding to the original question you've asked a question of your own. Any chance of a straight answer from you? Are these talks a good thing or not?

[emmie]

The Taliban are terrorists, they were to their own people, they are to the outside world, if governments are trying to negotiate, bring them to the table, is because coalition forces will be withdrawing someday soon, and they want to see if there is a better way than all the killing. Personally i can only see more heartache for the Afghani people and the women especially.