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It’s worth mentioning that the definition of genocide does not require an attempt to kill off every member of the group, like the Holocaust and Armenian genocid
by ashtonkem 6y ago
It’s worth mentioning that the definition of genocide does not require an attempt to kill off every member of the group, like the Holocaust and Armenian genocide. The 1948 UN convention on genocide included “causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group, deliberately imposing living conditions that seek to ‘bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part’, preventing births, or forcibly transferring children out of the group to another group.” Obviously planned mass death of a group is genocide, but that’s not the only defined requirement.
The coiner of the term genocide also included this in their description of it:
> the disintegration of the political and social institutions, of culture, language, national feelings, religion, and the economic existence of national groups, and the destruction of the personal security, liberty, health, dignity, and even the lives of the individuals belonging to such groups.