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minus-squareKichae@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up4·edit-21 year agoMy own country (Canada) is sadly guilty of of committing ongoing indigenous genocide. One merely needs to look up the term as defined by the United Nations Genocide Convntion to understand how. It defines genocide as any of these five “acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group”: killing members of the group causing them serious bodily harm, or mental harm imposing living conditions intended to destroy the group preventing births forcibly transferring children out of the group We tick every box. Every. Single. One. Always have, and continue to do so.
My own country (Canada) is sadly guilty of of committing ongoing indigenous genocide. One merely needs to look up the term as defined by the United Nations Genocide Convntion to understand how.
It defines genocide as any of these five “acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group”:
killing members of the group
causing them serious bodily harm, or mental harm
imposing living conditions intended to destroy the group
preventing births
forcibly transferring children out of the group
We tick every box. Every. Single. One. Always have, and continue to do so.