Reply #18: They munitied because they were starving to death.

[joshcryer]

Whatever their crimes were are up for debate, as their surviving parents claim that many of them were innocent. The fact that you'd believe the regime over the parents of these people is telling. If you want to play the moral relativism game, don't forget that Stalin's Russia killed more people in a day than the Czar's did in a week, if you truly want to pull out theocratic bullshit as some sort of relevant statement, and it's not even clear if it even remotely applies.

I personally would prefer a secular democracy with enumerated rights above either, of course.