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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (774252)	3/11/2014 7:10:57 PM
From: combjelly	Respond to of 1573135

Did you actually read the definition? The action criteria are: (b) Extermination; (c) Enslavement; (d) Deportation or forcible transfer of population; (e) Imprisonment or other severe deprivation of physical liberty in violation of fundamental rules of international law; In context, it is referring to populations, one or two actions isn't the criteria. Deporting someone isn't genocide. Rounding up people in groups because of the ethnicity, religion, race, etc. and deporting them is. Definitely, the Trail of Tears comes under this heading. That means any Native who killed white people with the intent of driving all of the white man off of their lands should be guilty of "genocide." Yes, there were some tribes with that intent. But there is a huge difference between a minority of tribes trying that and a nation which has made it a policy to do that. Talk about a lack of meaningful standard of judgement...