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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> | |||
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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: | 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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*Imposing measures designed to prevent births (i.e. [https://ijrcenter.org/forced-sterilization-of-indigenous-women-in-canada/ forced sterilization]) | *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]]). | *Forcibly transferring children from the group i.e. ([[Residential schools]] and the [[Sixties scoop]]). | ||
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| style="width: 19.6976%; background-color: rgb(153, 225, 217);" | '''Palestinian genocide ''' | |||
| style="width: 80.3024%;" | See our definitions page on the [[Global South]] for more. | |||
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| style="width: 19.6976%; background-color: rgb(153, 225, 217);" | '''Congo's genocide ''' | |||
| style="width: 80.3024%;" | See our definitions page on the [[Global South]] for more. | |||
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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
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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:
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| 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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- ↑ https://www.un.org/en/genocideprevention/documents/atrocity-crimes/Doc.1_Convention%20on%20the%20Prevention%20and%20Punishment%20of%20the%20Crime%20of%20Genocide.pdf
- ↑ https://theconversation.com/how-canada-committed-genocide-against-indigenous-peoples-explained-by-the-lawyer-central-to-the-determination-162582