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Originally Posted by Azure
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...
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That does not describe the Somali conflict at all. There were no particular ethnic, religious, ethnic or national groups targeted.
If we are going to stretch the term to describe what happenned in Somalia as genocide, then we might as well use the same term to describe the war in Afghanistan or Iraq.