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Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction
The term genocide gets thrown around too much IMO. In Somalia, the government collapsed and subsequently gangs and and warlords took over the country. As such, little aid was getting through to the people and it started to attract militant Islamic fundamentalists.
It was tragic and had horrible human consequences, but it wasn't a structured genocide by definition.
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I disagree.
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Genocide is the mass killing of a group of people as defined by Article 2 of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (CPPCG) as "any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such: killing members of the group; causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life, calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; and forcibly transferring children of the group to another group."
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Reason enough to call it a genocide. But, no need to argue....in the greater scheme of things, I could be wrong.
Still doesn't make it unjust to get involved.