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

[Chris Doss]

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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