Genocide

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

Examples of Genocide

Indigenous People across Turtle Island

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). 

The Palestinian People

Genocide should be understood as a social practice; it is not just the physical annihilation or merely mass killing of a group of people.