But compare that to China, where they deny a genocide because it is being perpetrated by the largest challenger to NATO and still nominally communist state in the world, and you have your answer.
In fairness most people deny the genocide claims made by the anti=China think-tanks.
1 is just your lack of reading/knowledge. 2 is simply describing war/conflict in general (e.g. dronies don’t see innocent civilians among their enemies)