tion, he might have added that you must strangle language, education, culture and the ability to reproduce. For those, the CCP has built an ever more detailed system of surveillance and repression.
Under Article 2 of the UN Convention on genocide, killing members of a ‘national, ethnical, racial or religious group’ is only one of five reasons for actions to qualify as genocide. The other four are: causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; deliberately inflicting conditions of life calculated to bring about a group’s destruction in whole or in part; preventing births; and forcibly transferring children to another group.
So at least four out of five - not sure about that last one, "forcibly transferring children to another group", but certainly the other four. No it's not the Holocaust, but yes, it is genocide.
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