>>> "Nathan Newman" <nathan.newman at yale.edu> 04/03/99 09:23PM
Of course the United States committed genocide against Native Americans.
That is one of the paradigmatic cases of genocide.
By International law, genocide consists of:
"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." _________________
Charles: Note (c) below, pertinent to an earlier LBO thread on outlawing the KKK and Nazis that the above is Article II of the United Nations Convention On the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.
Article III provides:
The following acts shall be punishable:
(a) Genocide
(b) Conspiracy to commit genocide;
(c) Direct and public incitement to commit genocide;
(d) Attempt to commit genocide;
(e) Complicity in genocide.