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A comment on Canada's parliament votes to label China's persecution of Uighurs as genocide. Parent comment

Re:Canada's parliament votes to label China's persecution of... by AlexandrB on Wednesday February 24, 2021 @02:45PM (#26254667)
> It has forcibly sterilised some Uyghur women.

I think the Economist is being pedantic. The above, applied broadly, would "kill a people" within one generation.

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Re:Canada's parliament votes to label China's persecution of... by dleslie on Wednesday February 24, 2021 @02:47PM (#26254706)
It's not being pedantic; it's moving the goalposts. The UN's definition of genocide does not require death camps.

https://www.un.org/en/genocideprevention/genocide.shtml

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