Comment by lostlogin
2 days ago
So genocide hasn’t happened if the population grows?
‘Just adjust the frame of measurement. With this one simple trick, you can remove any genocide.’
2 days ago
So genocide hasn’t happened if the population grows?
‘Just adjust the frame of measurement. With this one simple trick, you can remove any genocide.’
https://treaties.un.org/doc/Publication/UNTS/Volume%2078/v78... PDF page 289ff (numbered 277).
> In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:
> (a) Killing members of the group;
> (b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
> (c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
> (d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
> (e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.
The tricky part isn't about (a) to (e), it is in "intent to destroy".
"Intent to destroy" is usually difficult to prove, but in this case, it's the easiest part to prove. Israeli leaders (including the President, Prime Minister, Defense Minister, and other ministers), politicians, generals, soldiers and TV commentators (not to mention opinion polling of the general population) have made so many genocidal statements that it's difficult to keep track.