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Partizan, with all due respect, I think no mainstreamers would ever say it was on the mechanical level of the Jewish Holocaust. It was a genocide that happened during a civil war, for sure.
I'm sure you are already familiar with these; but
Did Turkey attempt to do any of the above? Did they attempt to destroy or eliminate the Armenian ethnic element in Anatolia? If Turkey and Greece go to war, and Muslims in Thrace are accused of helping gain sensitive information for Turkish Invasion, and Golden Dawn takes power and forces all of the Thracian Muslims over the border at gunpoint, would it be genocide? You and I know the answer to this...It would be 100% genocide.1) the mental element, meaning the "intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such", and
2) the physical element which includes five acts described in sections a, b, c, d and e. A crime must include both elements to be called "genocide."
Article III described five punishable forms of the crime of genocide: genocide; conspiracy, incitement, attempt and complicity.
Excerpt from the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide.
"Article II: In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:
(a) Killing members of the group;
(b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
(c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
(d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
(e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.
This isn't even about nationalism, this is just about being decent.
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