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But the Aremians were second class citizens. They were oppressed just like the Shia are. And they were targeted like the Shia are in Yemen.
Yes, definitions that are highly politically motivated and can basically be used against anyone.
No I dont. I agree with some of the definitions but I am very warry to use those legal definitions because they can so easily be painted on any country or society. For example, the police department in Ferguson. They targeted black people... that is genocide according to the definition.
Ferguson, no, you are musing the term to fit a variety of issues.
Ferguson would not come close to meeting the standard for Genocide.
Much in he same way you classify all war as genocidal. They are all not genocidal.
Now was Iraq and act of Genocide.
The slaughter of Armenians was Genocide.
It was a planned mass murder of an ethnic group. It meets the legal definition we now use for Genocide.