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Re:Uyghurs in Xinjiang – Onward to the Inevitable by dx87 on Thursday February 28, 2019 @10:04PM (#19277612)
Genocide is any attempt to destroy a group of people or their culture. Killing is one method of commiting genocide, but imprisoning members of a culture in an attempt to destroy that culture is also considered genocide.
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Re:Uyghurs in Xinjiang – Onward to the Inevitable by chr1 on Friday March 01, 2019 @04:06AM (#19278966)
Where did you find a definition about the culture? Searching genocide on google brings up only definitions including killing, and the word itself means killing people not culture.
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Re:Uyghurs in Xinjiang – Onward to the Inevitable by yourbandsucks on Thursday February 28, 2019 @11:02PM (#19277822)
No, genocide has a pretty precise definition, actually.

I'm sure I'll get downmodded to hell for pointing this out, but what's happening in xinjiang right now is a mass internment, with terrorism as the casus belli. It might turn into ethnic cleansing in the near future. It's unlikely to turn into genocide, and it's definitely not right now.

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