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by Phuq Hedd Thu Dec 11, 2003 05:06

Genocide is defined legally by the 1948 Convention on Genocide which specifies that genocide means some or all of the acts "committed with the intent to destroy in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group" listed below (see Article 2):

(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.

Now, given that the USA's assault on the Iraqi people is intended to destroy members of the group of people called Iraqis, and there have been statement from senior US generals that this is a religious war and that therefore (as they see it) this is an attack on Islam, I think we can fairly say that Shannon Warport is being used for genocide.

The word was acutally coined by Raphael Lemkin in his book "Axis Rule in Occupied Europe" [ 1st ed. 1944] in an attempt to provide a definition of a crime greater (in his opinion) than those enshrined in the 1907 Hague Convention as war crimes.

by Barney Wed Dec 10, 2003 22:53

Lethal is about the only correct term here.

Murderous would also be wrong, as there is no intention to take the life of an innocent person.

These warheads cost over $1 million dollars a throw, although they could be produced much more cheaply. Do you know why?

Because they're packed with electronics in order to save as many innocent lives as possible.

That's why genocidal is totally wrong here. get a good dictionary, you'll see what I mean.

by a-non Wed Dec 10, 2003 22:18

I think that if you read what it actually says yew will see that the reference to “genocidal machines of chaos and destruction” re-fairs to the machines used in the war not the actual war itself, so there for, the statement is technically correct. Don’t keep looking for something negative all the time. Why don’t yew grow up! Get off your fat asses and do something productive

by NAZI KILLER - US Tue Dec 09, 2003 11:07

Right and Proper use of word Genocide? , read your dictionary, read your history book, then read the news. no time for nazis (even semantic ones) or bithchy postings, you dont you write an article....
any videos?

by Semantics Nazi Mon Dec 08, 2003 12:35

Would it really have killed you to have looked up "genocidal"
in the dictionary?