DLV@CUNYVMS1.BITNET (Dimitri Vulis) (02/22/90)
I really don't recall the definition of genocide from the convention, but I have no doubt that someone should look it up. There are three different things involved here: * An attempt to kill every member of a certain ethnic group (examples: Hitler and the Jews, Hitler and the Gypsies, imprerial Russia and Siberian natives, imprerial Russia and North-Caucasian natives, Turkey and Armenians (the latter prompted by the previous)). * An attempt to round up every member of a certain ethnic group and deport them in some barely inhabitable place, which deportation kills most of them (example: Hitler and the Jews before about 1943, Stalin and assorted Soviet minorities between 1937 and 1949). * An attempt to forcibly assimilate an ethnic group by executing or deporting the more educated representatives and encouraging settlement by another ethnic group. Damn, I should really be working on getting my hardware up, not writing to various lists. :)