Editing Genocide denial (section)

==By governments==
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=== Australia ===
{{See also|Denial of genocides of Indigenous peoples}}
The Australian government has been criticized for engaging in genocide denial and historic revisionism, concerning the treatment of Indigenous people.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Ried |first=James |date=30 March 2016 |title='Invaded' not settled: UNSW rewrites history |url=https://thenewdaily.com.au/news/state/nsw/2016/03/30/invaded-settled-unsw-rewrite-australian-history/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230330095450/https://thenewdaily.com.au/news/state/nsw/2016/03/30/invaded-settled-unsw-rewrite-australian-history/ |archive-date=30 March 2023 |access-date=2 August 2024 |website=[[The New Daily]]}}</ref> Prominent Australian politicians have refused to acknowledge the genocide.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Frost |first=Natasha |date=26 July 2023 |title=Colonization Was the 'Luckiest Thing' to Happen to Australia, Ex-Leader Says |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/26/world/australia/colonization-australia-britain.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230730234404/https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/26/world/australia/colonization-australia-britain.html |archive-date=30 July 2023 |access-date=3 August 2024 |work=[[The New York Times]] |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Powell |first=Christopher |title=Barbaric Civilization: A Critical Sociology of Genocide |date=15 June 2011 |page=222 |url=https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9780773585560/html |access-date=3 August 2024 |publisher=[[McGill-Queen's University Press]] |language=en |doi=10.1515/9780773585560 |isbn=978-0-7735-8556-0}}</ref>

=== Canada ===
{{excerpt |Canadian genocide of Indigenous peoples#Denialism}}

=== Croatia ===
{{See also|Denial of the genocide of Serbs in the Independent State of Croatia}}

=== India ===
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=== Japan ===
{{See also|Nanjing Massacre denial}}
In Japan, interpretation of the [[Nanjing Massacre]] is reflected upon the notions of "pride, honor and shame". Takashi Yoshida describes the Japanese debate over the Nanjing Massacre as "crystalliz[ing] a much larger conflict over what should constitute the ideal perception of the nation: Japan, as a nation, acknowledges its past and apologizes for its wartime wrongdoings; or&nbsp;... stands firm against foreign pressures and teaches Japanese youth about the benevolent and courageous martyrs who fought a just war to save Asia from Western aggression."<ref>{{Cite book |last=Yoshida |first=Takashi |url=https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Making_of_the_Rape_of_Nanking.html?id=TH08DwAAQBAJ&source=kp_book_description |title=The Making of the "Rape of Nanking": History and Memory in Japan, China, and the United States |date=2006-03-23 |publisher=Oxford University Press, USA |isbn=978-0-19-518096-1 |pages=129 |language=en}}</ref> In some nationalist circles in Japan, speaking of a large-scale massacre at Nanjing is regarded as {{" '}}[[Japan bashing]]' (in the case of foreigners) or 'self-flagellation' (in the case of Japanese)".<ref name="Askew">{{cite journal |journal=Electronic Journal of Contemporary Japanese Studies |date=4 April 2002 |title=The Nanjing Incident – Recent Research and Trends |first=David |last=Askew |access-date=24 March 2009 |url=http://www.japanesestudies.org.uk/articles/Askew.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180405031715/http://www.japanesestudies.org.uk/articles/Askew.html |archive-date=5 April 2018 |url-status=dead}}</ref> This means that most Japanese youth are oblivious of the massacre because this dark history is not taught in Japanese schools, and the continued worship of Japanese war criminals enshrined in the [[Yasukuni Shrine]] by mainstream politicians in Japan.

=== Pakistan ===
The government of [[Pakistan]] continues to deny that [[1971 Bangladesh genocide|any Bangladeshi genocide]] took place during the [[Bangladesh Liberation War]] of 1971. They typically accuse Pakistani reporters (such as [[Anthony Mascarenhas]]), who reported on the genocide, of being "enemy agents".<ref>"His article was – from Pakistan's point of view – a huge betrayal and he was accused of being an enemy agent. It still denies its forces were behind such atrocities as those described by Mascarenhas, and blames Indian propaganda."{{cite news |title=Bangladesh war: The article that changed history |first=Mark |last=Dummett |author-link=Mark Dummett |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-16207201 |newspaper=[[BBC Asia]] |date=16 December 2011 |access-date=27 December 2011 |archive-date=28 December 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201228012639/https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-16207201 |url-status=live}}</ref> According to Donald W. Beachler, professor of [[political science]] at [[Ithaca College]]:<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.instituteforthestudyofgenocide.org/events/2005iagsconference/abstracts/IAGS%202005.proposal.doc |title=Genocide Denial; The Case of Bangladesh |last=Beachler |first=Donald W. |website=Institute for the Study of Genocide |access-date=28 November 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120426074152/http://www.instituteforthestudyofgenocide.org/events/2005iagsconference/abstracts/IAGS%202005.proposal.doc |archive-date=26 April 2012}}</ref>
{{blockquote|The government of Pakistan explicitly denied that there was genocide. By their refusal to characterise the mass-killings as genocide or to condemn and restrain the Pakistani government, the US and Chinese governments implied that they did not consider it so.}}
Similarly, in the wake of the [[2013 Shahbag protests]] against [[war criminals]] who were complicit in the genocide, English journalist [[Philip Hensher]] wrote:<ref>{{cite news |title=The war Bangladesh can never forget |first=Philip |last=Hensher |author-link=Philip Hensher |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/the-war-bangladesh-can-never-forget-8501636.html# |newspaper=[[The Independent]] |date=19 February 2013 |access-date=26 February 2013 |archive-date=28 December 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201228012649/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/war-bangladesh-can-never-forget-8501636.html |url-status=live}}</ref>
{{blockquote|The genocide is still too little known about in the West. It is, moreover, the subject of shocking degrees of denial among partisan polemicists and manipulative historians.}}

=== Russia ===
{{See also|Holodomor denial}}[[Russia]] denies the [[Circassian genocide]], instead describing the events as a mass migration ([[Russian language|Russian]]: Черкесское мухаджирство, <abbr>lit.</abbr> 'Circassian migrationism').<ref>{{Cite web |date=May 2011 |title=Georgia Recognizes Russian 'Genocide' Of Ethnic Circassians |url=https://www.rferl.org/a/georgia_recognizes_russian_genocide_of_ethnic_circassians/24181560.html |access-date=15 January 2021 |website=[[Radio Free Europe]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Georgia Recognizes Circassian Genocide |url=https://eurasianet.org/georgia-recognizes-circassian-genocide |access-date=15 January 2021 |website=Eurasianet}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Bodio |first1=Tadeusz |last2=Sieradzan |first2=Przemysław J. |date=15 December 2012 |title=Źródła nacjonalizmu czerkieskiego i jego konsekwencje polityczne |trans-title=Sources of Circassian nationalism and its political consequences |url=https://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/ssp/article/view/10748 |journal=Środkowoeuropejskie Studia Polityczne |language=pl |issue=4 |pages=47–74 |doi=10.14746/ssp.2012.4.03 |issn=1731-7517 |doi-access=free}}</ref> In 2009, the [[Presidential Commission to Counter Attempts to Falsify History to the Detriment of Russia's Interests|Presidential Commission of the Russian Federation to Counter Attempts to Falsify History to the Detriment of Russia’s Interests]] denied the genocide alongside other crimes.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Richmond |first=Walter |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LHlwZwpA70cC |title=The Circassian Genocide |date=2013-04-09 |publisher=Rutgers University Press |isbn=978-0-8135-6069-4 |pages=2, 169 |language=en}}</ref>

=== Serbia ===
{{Further|Srebrenica massacre|Bosnian genocide denial}}
According to [[Sonja Biserko]], president of the [[Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Serbia]], and Edina Becirevic, the faculty of criminology and security studies of the [[University of Sarajevo]]:
{{blockquote|Denial of the [[Srebrenica genocide]] takes many forms [in Serbia]. The methods range from the brutal to the deceitful. Denial is present most strongly in political discourse, in the media, in the sphere of law, and in the educational system.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.bosnia.org.uk/news/news_body.cfm?newsid=2638 |title=Denial of genocide – on the possibility of normalising relations in the region |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303231517/http://www.bosnia.org.uk/news/news_body.cfm?newsid=2638 |archive-date=3 March 2016 |first1=Sonja |last1=Biserko |first2=Edina |last2=Becirevic}}</ref>}}

=== Turkey ===
{{Main|Armenian genocide denial}}
The government of the [[Republic of Turkey]] has long [[Armenian genocide denial|denied]] that the [[Armenian genocide]] was a genocide.<ref name="Reuters">{{cite news |first=Evelyn |last=Leopold |date=9 April 2007 |title=UN genocide exhibit delayed after Turkey objects |work=[[Reuters]] |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSN0934951820070410 |access-date=1 July 2017 |archive-date=9 March 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210309002844/https://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSN0934951820070410 |url-status=live}}</ref> According to Akçam, "Turkish denialism [of the genocide] is perhaps the most successful example of how the well-organised, deliberate, and systematic spreading of falsehoods can play an important role in the field of public debate" and that "fact-based truths have been discredited and relegated to the status of mere opinion".<ref name="Killing Orders" /> Turkey acknowledges that many Armenians residing in the Ottoman Empire were killed in conflicts with Ottoman forces during World War I, but disputes the statistics and claims that the killings were systematic and amounted to genocide. Measures recognising the Armenian genocide have languished in the US Congress for decades, and US presidents have refrained from labelling it such due to worries about relations with Turkey and intensive lobbying by Ankara.<ref>{{Cite news |date=20 April 2021 |title=Turkey says any U.S. recognition of Armenian 'genocide' would further harm ties |url=https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/turkey-says-us-recognising-armenian-genocide-will-further-harm-ties-2021-04-20/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231002064805/https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/turkey-says-us-recognising-armenian-genocide-will-further-harm-ties-2021-04-20/ |archive-date=2 October 2023 |access-date=19 September 2023 |work=[[Reuters]] |language=en}}</ref>

=== United States ===
{{See also|Denial of atrocities against Indigenous peoples}}

The government of the United States has been accused of denial of the genocide of its Indigenous peoples<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Chavez Cameron |first1=Susan |last2=Phan |first2=Loan T. |date=July 13, 2018 |title=Ten stages of American Indian genocide |url=https://journal.sipsych.org/index.php/IJP/article/view/876 |journal=Revista Interamericana de Psicología/Interamerican Journal of Psychology |volume=52 |issue=1 |language=en-US |doi=10.30849/rip/ijp.v52i1.876 |doi-broken-date=1 November 2024}}</ref> by academics such as Benjamin Madley,<ref name=":4">{{cite book |last=Madley |first=Benjamin |title=An American Genocide: The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe, 1846-1873 |publisher=[[Yale University Press]] |year=2016 |isbn=978-0300181364 |location=New Haven |pages=12}}</ref> [[David Stannard]]<ref>{{Cite book |last=Stannard |first=David E. |author-link=David Stannard |title=American Holocaust: The Conquest of the New World |date=1994 |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |isbn=978-0-19-508557-0 |location=Oxford, New York |page=221}}</ref> and [[Noam Chomsky]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Chomsky |first=Noam |author-link=Noam Chomsky |date=1 September 2010 |title=Genocide Denial with a Vengeance: Old and New Imperial Norms |url=https://monthlyreview.org/2010/09/01/genocide-denial-with-a-vengeance-old-and-new-imperial-norms/ |access-date=30 March 2023 |website=[[Monthly Review]] |page=16 |quote=Settler colonialism, commonly the most vicious form of imperial conquest, provides striking illustrations. The English colonists in North America had no doubts about what they were doing. [[American Revolution|Revolutionary War]] hero General [[Henry Knox]], the first Secretary of War in the newly liberated American colonies, described "the utter extirpation of all the Indians in most populous parts of the Union" by means "more destructive to the Indian natives than the conduct of the conquerors of Mexico and Peru", which would have been no small achievement. In his later years, President [[John Quincy Adams]] recognized the fate of "that hapless race of native Americans, which we are exterminating with such merciless and perfidious cruelty, [to be] among the heinous sins of this nation, for which I believe God will one day bring [it] to judgement". |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250208105802/https://monthlyreview.org/2010/09/01/genocide-denial-with-a-vengeance-old-and-new-imperial-norms/ |archive-date=8 February 2025}}</ref>

The [[Second presidency of Donald Trump|Trump]] and [[Presidency of Joe Biden|Biden]] administrations, US media outlets and the US political class at large have been accused of denying the [[Gaza genocide]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Zunes |first=Stephen |date=2025-02-14 |title=By Rejecting Evidence of Genocide in Gaza, the US Is Following a Familiar Pattern |url=https://newlinesmag.com/essays/by-rejecting-evidence-of-genocide-in-gaza-the-us-is-following-a-familiar-pattern/ |access-date=2025-04-30 |website=New Lines Magazine |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=The Return of Genocide Denial |url=https://jacobin.com/2025/01/genocide-denial-israel-us-gaza |access-date=2025-04-30 |website=jacobin.com |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Opinion {{!}} The Genocide Denial of the 'Pro-Israel, Pro-Peace' Crowd {{!}} Common Dreams |url=https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/the-genocide-denial-of-the-pro-israel-pro-peace-crowd |access-date=2025-04-30 |website=www.commondreams.org |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Genocide Denial in Holocaust Studies: Gaza 80 Years After Auschwitz Liberation |url=https://www.democracynow.org/2025/1/28/raz_segal |access-date=2025-04-30 |website=Democracy Now! |language=en}}</ref>