"Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group".... I suspect the conflict in Ireland caused serious mental harm. Saddam Hussein against the Kurds. The expulsion of millions of Germans from the Sudatenland who had lived there for 500 years. Indonesia... Sri Lanka... On and on ...
"Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group".... I suspect the conflict in Ireland caused serious mental harm. Saddam Hussein against the Kurds. The expulsion of millions of Germans from the Sudatenland who had lived there for 500 years. Indonesia... Sri Lanka... On and on ...
Under that UN definition almost every large scale episode of violence in recorded history is plausibly genocide.
I’m reminded of learning about the crime of conspiracy in criminal law class and how the definition is often so broad as to seemingly swallow everything.
Personally, I find the UN definition to be ridiculous.
"Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group".... I suspect the conflict in Ireland caused serious mental harm. Saddam Hussein against the Kurds. The expulsion of millions of Germans from the Sudatenland who had lived there for 500 years. Indonesia... Sri Lanka... On and on ...
Under that UN definition almost every large scale episode of violence in recorded history is plausibly genocide.
I’m reminded of learning about the crime of conspiracy in criminal law class and how the definition is often so broad as to seemingly swallow everything.
Personally, I find the UN definition to be ridiculous.