g7:
"Words mean things." Rush Limbaugh

I use the word, because that particular word accurately describes what was done to them.
I've lost count. But I think it was about 80 men, women, and children.
"GENOCIDE?!?!?!?

Piffle. We hardly kill every lunatic, nor every extremist religious group.

Balderdash." g7

g7:
genocide means killing off, exterminating an entire group.
THERE ARE NO MORE BRANCH DAVIDIANS!!
SURE! There may have been one or more groups that sprang up after Howell's group was killed off*. But they bore no direct relation to Howell's group.
And for those that know the history of the BDs, Howell's (Koresch's) BD's were not the first either.

NF,
Not a problem. You're right in that it was right on the cusp of Reno's tenure.

* There were a few human survivors.
BUT!
They're no longer Branch Davidians. So yes, the entire group was extinguished.
And they were extinguished by government inflicted action; resulting in a conflagration.

"when the bigots of this world have been privileged for as long as they have, to them equality feels like discrimination." shiftless2