>"Transfering children of one group to another group through
>adoptions" is not genocide. Neither is persuading people to be
>"sterilized" -- whether through "deception" or not. You can treat people
>very horribly without it being genocide.
Nathan Newman said here recently:
>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."
You judge if the definition fits. Evidently Jesse Helms & Co. think so, or they might not oppose U.S. ratification of the treaty.
Doug