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== Examples of Genocide ==
== Example of Genocide ==


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Adrienne Maree Brown  <ref>https://transformharm.org/the-fictions-and-futures-of-transformative-justice/#:~:text=adrienne%20maree%20brown.,think%20that%20can%20be%20tricky.</ref>  
'''Indigenous People across Turtle Island ''' <ref>'''https://theconversation.com/how-canada-committed-genocide-against-indigenous-peoples-explained-by-the-lawyer-central-to-the-determination-162582'''</ref>  
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''"I tend to think of abolition as one result of transformative justice: abolition is the end of prisons; transformative justice is the methods people use to uproot injustice patterns in communities. I tend to think of abolition as a totality, and I think that can be tricky. People set out to abolish slavery and we ended up with the prison industrial complex because while there were surface and policy level shifts, the culture did not shift. That deep underlying racism and classism remains and is now roaring to the surface as we write this. So, while I identify as an abolitionist, I find speaking about the iterative tangible work of transformative justice makes more sense to me now–I don’t simply want the prisons gone, I want a radically different way of interacting with each other to grow."''
Behaviours that the Canadian and American state and settlers in so-called Canada and the USA contributed, and in many cases still contribute to, to that constitute genocide on Indigenous Peoples include but are not limited to:
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*Inflicting mental or physical harm (i.e. sexual abuse and mistreatment of children in [[Residential schools]])
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*Imposing living conditions designed to result in physical destruction (i.e. starvation to develop the Canadian West; lack of adequate food, water or medical care)
Mia Mingus  <ref>https://transformharm.org/the-fictions-and-futures-of-transformative-justice/#:~:text=adrienne%20maree%20brown.,think%20that%20can%20be%20tricky.</ref>
*Imposing measures designed to prevent births (i.e. [https://ijrcenter.org/forced-sterilization-of-indigenous-women-in-canada/ forced sterilization])
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*Forcibly transferring children from the group i.e. ([[Residential schools]] and the [[Sixties scoop]]).&nbsp;
''"I understand abolition to be a necessary part of transformative justice because prisons, and the PIC, are major sites of individual and collective violence, abuse, and trauma. However, transformative justice is and must also be a critical part of abolition work because we will need to build alternatives to how we respond to harm, violence, and abuse. Just because we shut down prisons, does not mean that these will stop. Transformative justice has roots in abolition work and is an abolitionist framework, but goes beyond abolishing prisons (and slavery) and asks us to end–and transform the conditions that perpetuate–generational cycles of violence such as rape, sexual assault, child abuse, child sexual abuse, domestic violence, intimate partner abuse, war, genocide, poverty, human trafficking, police brutality, murder, stalking, sexual harassment, all systems of oppression, dangerous societal norms, and trauma."''
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| style="width: 19.6976%; background-color: rgb(153, 225, 217);" | '''Palestinian genocide '''
 
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| style="width: 19.6976%; background-color: rgb(153, 225, 217);" | Amanda Aguilar Shank  <ref>https://brownstargirl.org/beyond-survival/</ref>
| style="width: 19.6976%; background-color: rgb(153, 225, 217);" | '''Congo's genocide '''
| style="width: 80.3024%;" | Interpersonal harm is inevitable. Abolition imagines that ''"each moment where harm happens is an opportunity to transform relationships and communities, build trust and safety, and grow slowly toward the beautiful people we are meant to be, in the world we deserve."&nbsp;''<br>
 
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=== Indigenous People across Turtle Island  <ref>https://theconversation.com/how-canada-committed-genocide-against-indigenous-peoples-explained-by-the-lawyer-central-to-the-determination-162582</ref>      ===


Behaviours that the Canadian and American state and settlers in so-called Canada and the USA contributed, and in many cases still contribute to, to that constitute genocide on Indigenous Peoples include but are not limited to:
*Inflicting mental or physical harm (i.e. sexual abuse and mistreatment of children in [[Residential schools]])
*Imposing living conditions designed to result in physical destruction (i.e. starvation to develop the Canadian West; lack of adequate food, water or medical care)
*Imposing measures designed to prevent births (i.e. [https://ijrcenter.org/forced-sterilization-of-indigenous-women-in-canada/ forced sterilization])
*Forcibly transferring children from the group i.e. ([[Residential schools]] and the [[Sixties scoop]]).&nbsp;




Latest revision as of 17:24, 9 November 2023

*content warning: this page discusses violence against Indigenous Peoples.*

''Genocide is defined in international law as 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.

Genocide encompasses a variety of lethal and non-lethal acts, including acts of “slow death.” -United Nations [1]


Example of Genocide

Indigenous People across Turtle Island [2]

Behaviours that the Canadian and American state and settlers in so-called Canada and the USA contributed, and in many cases still contribute to, to that constitute genocide on Indigenous Peoples include but are not limited to:

  • Inflicting mental or physical harm (i.e. sexual abuse and mistreatment of children in Residential schools)
  • Imposing living conditions designed to result in physical destruction (i.e. starvation to develop the Canadian West; lack of adequate food, water or medical care)
  • Imposing measures designed to prevent births (i.e. forced sterilization)
  • Forcibly transferring children from the group i.e. (Residential schools and the Sixties scoop). 
Palestinian genocide See our definitions page on the Global South for more.
Congo's genocide See our definitions page on the Global South for more.




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  1. ↑ https://www.un.org/en/genocideprevention/documents/atrocity-crimes/Doc.1_Convention%20on%20the%20Prevention%20and%20Punishment%20of%20the%20Crime%20of%20Genocide.pdf
  2. ↑ https://theconversation.com/how-canada-committed-genocide-against-indigenous-peoples-explained-by-the-lawyer-central-to-the-determination-162582
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