Re:Twitter deletes China embassy's Xinjiang 'emancipation' t...
by ceejayoz on Sunday January 10, 2021 @02:47PM
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>> In general, intent matters
> Perhaps, but that difference is not given in the U.N. definition.
Yes, it is. The UN's 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide defines it explicitly with intent in mind:
"... genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group..."
> Perhaps, but that difference is not given in the U.N. definition.
Yes, it is. The UN's 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide defines it explicitly with intent in mind:
"... genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group..."