Not accurate, you are straying further and further from the truth to cover your initial mistake of denial, now you are simply falling into falsehood:
You can pick any standard definition you want, but you wont, because you know you would have to accept the truth, which becomes increasingly difficult as you wriggle and shift away from the facts.
Here is a much simpler definition from a dictionary, if you prefer... I know you prefer to dismiss the term altogether though:
gen·o·cide
noun
the deliberate and systematic extermination of a national, racial, political, or cultural group.
(Dictionary.com)
>>>"By the definition that one_less has given, the only requirement for "genocide" is intent."
The international legal definition I provided describes 2 elements not ...only one requirement. Is Hydrogen which is an element of water, water? No, there are two elements of water, hydrogen and Oxygen. Likewise there are two elements required in the definition of Genocide to validate use of the term.
Article II: "A crime must include both elements to be called genocide"
The international legal definition of the crime of genocide is found in Articles II and III of the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide.
Article II describes two elements of the crime of genocide:
1) the mental element, meaning the"intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such", and
2) the physical elementwhich includes five acts described in sections a, b, c, d and e. A crime must include both elements to be called "genocide."
Article III described five punishable forms of the crime of genocide: genocide; conspiracy, incitement, attempt and complicity.
Excerpt from the Convention on the Prevention and
Punishment of Genocide ( For full text click here) "Article II: In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:
(a) Killing members of the group;
(b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
(c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
(d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
(e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.
preventgenocide.org 
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