There is a certain kind of crass genocide denialist who will insist that this or that genocide can’t possibly be happening because the perpetrator has not killed enough victims yet, or hasn’t been killing them quickly enough, to meet some arbitrary model of genocide they hold in their head.
But genocide is not merely mass murder. Rather, genocide is the process of destroying a group of people as a distinct community. It certainly does involve mass murder, but it encompasses many other kinds of related crimes—including efforts to stop that community from being able to have children and forcible assimilation of members of that community.
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