The law is expected to take effect this autumn.

Let’s say better late than never.

  • Omega@discuss.onlineEnglish
    17·
    10 days ago

    Armenian and Gaza is fully confirmed, but human rights violations of Xinjiang not so much, it’s semantics at that much, like calling the modern Turkish state genocidal for destroying the culture of Kurds in northern Syria, when it was not explicitly to destroy the people itself

    • throwawayacc0430@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      34·
      10 days ago

      Its forced assimulation just like what the US did to the natives of America. If what the US did was genocide (it is), then what PRC is doing to Xinjiang and Tibet is also genocide.

      • Omega@discuss.onlineEnglish
        17·
        10 days ago

        Fair enough, but the term genocide is far too inclusive, I’ve heard people use cultural genocide instead.

      • LarmyOfLone@lemm.eeEnglish
        11·
        9 days ago

        No, “cultural genocide” is not genocide. There is a pretty clear legal definition:

        … 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; © 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.

        • technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          8·
          9 days ago

          It’s pretty hilarious how tankies suddenly start quibbling over definitions once China is mentioned.

          Where’s that definition from?

          • idiomaddict@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            8 days ago

            Raphael Lemkin, who first coined the term, defined genocide as “the destruction of a nation or of an ethnic group” by means such as “the disintegration of [its] political and social institutions, of [its] culture, language, national feelings, religion, and [its] economic existence”.[2]During the struggle to ratify the Genocide Convention, powerful countries restricted Lemkin’s definition to exclude their own actions from being classified as genocide,[3][4] ultimately limiting it to any of five “acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group”.[5] While there are many scholarly definitions of genocide,[6]almost all international bodies of law officially adjudicate the crime of genocide pursuant to the Genocide Convention.[7]

            From that wiki page, and I appreciate the just barely academically masked sass about why it’s such a narrow definition

      • HighFructoseLowStand@lemm.eeEnglish
        6·
        9 days ago

        I’d swear that there is a message group specifically for .ml users to jump in whenever any criticism is leveled at China.