Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!psuvax1!psuvm!auvm!CUNYVMS1!DLV From: DLV@CUNYVMS1.BITNET (Dimitri Vulis) Newsgroups: bit.listserv.disarm-l Subject: Genocide Message-ID: Date: 21 Feb 90 16:01:00 GMT Sender: Disarmament Discussion List Reply-To: Disarmament Discussion List Lines: 16 Approved: NETNEWS@AUVM.BITNET Gateway Original_To: JNET%"disarm-l@albnyvm1" I really don't recall the definition of genocide from the convention, but I have no doubt that someone should look it up. There are three different things involved here: * An attempt to kill every member of a certain ethnic group (examples: Hitler and the Jews, Hitler and the Gypsies, imprerial Russia and Siberian natives, imprerial Russia and North-Caucasian natives, Turkey and Armenians (the latter prompted by the previous)). * An attempt to round up every member of a certain ethnic group and deport them in some barely inhabitable place, which deportation kills most of them (example: Hitler and the Jews before about 1943, Stalin and assorted Soviet minorities between 1937 and 1949). * An attempt to forcibly assimilate an ethnic group by executing or deporting the more educated representatives and encouraging settlement by another ethnic group. Damn, I should really be working on getting my hardware up, not writing to various lists. :)