>At 10:40 PM -0500 22/1/03, Dennis Perrin wrote:
>
>>Genocide? When they start herding Palestinians into gas chambers by the
>>millions, then we'll talk.
>
>Hang on there. We didn't herd the Tasmanian Aborigines into gas
>chambers, rather we herded them into isolated enclaves where, devoid
>of any economy, they had to rely on charity to survive. They didn't
>survive, they died of disease etc.
The official UN definition of genocide:
>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.