[lbo-talk] allAfrica.com: Sudan [column]: It's Genocide in Darfur

Chris Doss lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com
Wed Aug 11 04:01:53 PDT 2004


Article 2 of the Convention states that "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."

What an unworkable definition. According to this, if a Philippino gang in New York shoots up a bunch of members of a Puerto Rican gang, they are engaging in genocide. Any war between two nation-states, nay, any war between two tribes, would classify as genocide under defs. a and b.

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