@kegill if I evaluate it under the same criteria, of a trapped and contained civilian population with an affirmative death rate of at least 1% every few months, and an intent to continue this war for a year, clearly it will be at least comparable to Auschwitz. Since there many be so many yet uncounted dead, and many who will die from disease and starvation, it may easily exceed it. Should humanity wait just so we can make a monument afterward, or do we act now while lives may still be saved?