• mosiacmango@lemm.ee
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      10 months ago

      He just made it uninhabitable by humans. Not exactly the same as wiping it out, but since it forced displacement of a whole planet, it was genocide.

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            10 months ago

            I would love to see the source for that. e.g. Oxford Languages says

            the deliberate killing of a large number of people from a particular nation or ethnic group with the aim of destroying that nation or group.

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              The dictionary isn’t a legal framework or international organization. The UN has a convention on genocide:

              In the present Convention, genocide means 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.

              Item (c) comes the closest to what Sisko did, but he did it in a way that gave them a chance to get out, so it’s not a perfect match. Forcing conditions for removing a group probably wouldn’t qualify under any of these. That said, it can be a factor in Ethnic Cleansing, but the Maquis aren’t really an ethnic group.