Genocide is not only a problem of mass death, but also of how, as a relatively new idea and law, it organizes and distorts thinking about civilian destruction.
Dirk Moses argues that the implicit hierarchy of international criminal law, atop which sits genocide as the \'crime of crimes\', blinds us to other types of humanly caused civilian death, like bombing cities, and the \'collateral damage\' of missi.
Taking the normative perspective of civilian immunity from military attack, A.
Genocide is not only a problem of mass death, but also of how, as a relatively new idea and law, it organizes and distorts thinking about civilian destruction