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Originally Posted by nik-
You're defining it differently now. I see a group of people targetting a specific group of people based on race or religion and mass killing them as a genocide.
Now you're trying to pin State sanctioning on it, which wasn't in your original statement. Again, I responded to your original statement and now you're moving your retorts in a different direction.
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Seriously, are you actually reading what I am saying? It was the policy and plan of the German state to wipe out every single Jew in the world, and they pretty much killed every single one within their control. Are you trying to tell me it was the policy of Great Britain and/or the United States to exterminate Indians? If you are - you are nuts. The Indians were certainly treated as second-class citizens, but they were not rounded up and executed. You'd have more of an argument with Spain vis-a-vis Aztecs, but that was more "accidental" genocide.
The example of Turks/Armenians is a good one, but sadly I don't know enough about that to know how organized and purposeful it was. Otherwise, I am still aware of only 2 examples of purposeful
extermination (not subjugation, discrimination, enslavement, occupation, etc) of a race of people - Jews in WW 2 and Tutsis in Rwanda.