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ULAN BATOR, Mongolia (AP) - An American-financed expedition to find the tomb of legendary conqueror Genghis Khan has stopped work after being accused by a prominent Mongolian politician of desecrating traditional rulers' graves....

Genghis Khan overran much of Asia before his death in 1227, gaining a reputation as a mass murderer. But at home he is the hero of Mongolia - a reminder of an era before this sparsely populated land was dominated by its giant Chinese and Soviet neighbors.
The Guardian UK

{This is maybe pretty representative of the general position of a lot of English thinking.
Parse it. A reputation with whom? The implication is everybody but the local Mongols. Maybe, maybe not. It doesn't hurt to remember there are still places and people in the world who think of the English themselves as not so lily-white on the conscience/culpability thing. Mass murder in the service of empire-building being not quite so fearfully inappropriate. That was, if I'm not entirely misinformed, the big issue with Ghengis. And England in its day. And the United States not all that long ago.}