Is the Burma Army committing genocide?
Technically, the term genocide endorsed by the UN in the Genocide Convention of 1948 is: 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. By this definition the Burma Army is committing genocide. However, the term genocide is usually attributed to mass killings (i.e. The Holocaust, Yugoslavia, Rawanda and presently Sudan) to name a few. The acts that are occurring in Burma are a slow and methodical oppression of the people with an aim of complete dominance.
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