The 1948 Genocide Convention defines genocide as any of five ‘acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group’.[14][15] The acts in question include killing members of the group, causing them serious bodily or mental harm, imposing living conditions intended to destroy the group, preventing births, and forcibly transferring children out of the group. [14] Genocide is a crime of special intent (dolus specialis); it is carried out deliberately, with victims targeted based on real or perceived membership in a protected group.[15] The genocides recognised under the 1948 legal definition that led to trials in international criminal tribunals are the Cambodian genocide, the Rwandan genocide, and the Srebrenica massacre.[11]
Given that Ukrainian children are being captured and indoctrinated, and it’s hard to see Putin being happy with the existence of the nation itself as anything but a suzerainty, it feels like we’re ticking enough boxes not to clutch any pearls about applying the word “genocide”.
It sucks to know that there are multiple concurrent genocides, some more intense than others, that are being treated way differently because of racism and money in politics. But it doesn’t diminish the crimes of, e.g., Israel to call Russia’s aggression also genocide.
Your definition isn’t wrong. That’s also why what Russia is doing isn’t genocide.
That things have been done, or as you’re saying MAY be done may apply to aspects of what is in actuality a horribly misguided war, does not mean it satisfies the criteria for fenocide.
Like. You understand that when you bold things that the stuff that you did not bold is still there right?
The war is horribly misguided, evil, and appalling but it is a war. War crimes have certainly been committed but not on the scale necessary to classify it as genocide, nor with the demonstrable intent to eliminate the Ukrainian people entirely.
Your cherry picking of the definition would mean that all war is genocide. Which, if you believe that, fine, but don’t be intellectually dishonest about it.
According to multiple national governments,[20][21][22] international organisations,[23] independent experts and media outlets,[24][25][26] Russia and its ally Belarus are committing genocide against the Ukrainian people as part of the ongoing Russo-Ukrainian War
What’s happening in the Ukraine is evil and fucked up but it’s war, not genocide.
This isn’t to cheapen the damage Russia has done nor excuse their actions but genocide has a distinct meaning.
Wikipedia (emphasis mine):
The 1948 Genocide Convention defines genocide as any of five ‘acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group’.[14][15] The acts in question include killing members of the group, causing them serious bodily or mental harm, imposing living conditions intended to destroy the group, preventing births, and forcibly transferring children out of the group. [14] Genocide is a crime of special intent (dolus specialis); it is carried out deliberately, with victims targeted based on real or perceived membership in a protected group.[15] The genocides recognised under the 1948 legal definition that led to trials in international criminal tribunals are the Cambodian genocide, the Rwandan genocide, and the Srebrenica massacre.[11]
Given that Ukrainian children are being captured and indoctrinated, and it’s hard to see Putin being happy with the existence of the nation itself as anything but a suzerainty, it feels like we’re ticking enough boxes not to clutch any pearls about applying the word “genocide”.
It sucks to know that there are multiple concurrent genocides, some more intense than others, that are being treated way differently because of racism and money in politics. But it doesn’t diminish the crimes of, e.g., Israel to call Russia’s aggression also genocide.
Your definition isn’t wrong. That’s also why what Russia is doing isn’t genocide.
That things have been done, or as you’re saying MAY be done may apply to aspects of what is in actuality a horribly misguided war, does not mean it satisfies the criteria for fenocide.
Like. You understand that when you bold things that the stuff that you did not bold is still there right?
The war is horribly misguided, evil, and appalling but it is a war. War crimes have certainly been committed but not on the scale necessary to classify it as genocide, nor with the demonstrable intent to eliminate the Ukrainian people entirely.
Your cherry picking of the definition would mean that all war is genocide. Which, if you believe that, fine, but don’t be intellectually dishonest about it.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegations_of_genocide_of_Ukrainians_in_the_Russo-Ukrainian_War
https://icj-cij.org/case/182
https://unric.org/en/international-court-of-justice-ukraine-v-russia/
You might have missed the bit where genocide is any of the five things? It says it right there.
It doesn’t matter. It shouldn’t be happening and we can’t stop it by bickering.