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

[Marvin Gandall]

Yes, I think a simpler and more accurate description is the planned
organized extermination of an entire group down to the last man, woman, and
chilld. Young men, in particular, are routinely executed by invading armies
and militias. Alhough vicious, the intent is not necessarily genocidal, but
to deprive the other side of a fighting force. These are war crimes.  So "to
destroy...in part" and other attempts to lend more precision to the
convention's definition of genocide actually blurs it, as you point out.

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> 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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