Every single week on this website I learn about some new atrocity committed by a Western nation that has just been hidden away in the back of a closet, never spoken of before. Every fucking week.
Ethnic cleansing is its own category of crime against humanity. There is no legal hierarchy for crimes against humanity. As far as international law is concerned, ethnic cleansing is just as bad as genocide.
Real question: Isn't "ethnic cleansing by mass deportation" a form of genocide?
Yes.
But not when the US government's favored groups do it. Ukraine, Israel, whoever is fighting the Syrian government.
Only if you're a Russian government official trying to find safe housing outside of a war zone for orphans.
At this point it's best just to be clear about what's actually happening and explain why it's bad. "Genocide" is thrown around for everything.
If it is enforced with violence, including killing parts of the population that resist deportation, then certainly.
Yes but don't look up Chagos Island, nothing happened there!!
Every single week on this website I learn about some new atrocity committed by a Western nation that has just been hidden away in the back of a closet, never spoken of before. Every fucking week.
Ethnic cleansing is its own category of crime against humanity. There is no legal hierarchy for crimes against humanity. As far as international law is concerned, ethnic cleansing is just as bad as genocide.