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To: ought-six
"The Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide was signed in 1948"

According to this --- which is the legal definition--- "ethnic cleansing" IS a form of genocide. It is also called "cultural genocide."

10 posted on 07/19/2014 4:14:17 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o (When I grow up, I'm gonna settle down, chew honeycomb & drive a tractor, grow things in the ground.)
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To: Mrs. Don-o

Ethnic cleansing can also mean physical removal from a defined area. Thus, forced deportation is a form of ethnic cleaning. Of course, so is mass murder.


30 posted on 07/20/2014 6:05:08 PM PDT by ought-six ( Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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