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In reply to the discussion: Should Syria not be punished for using chemical weapons because Russia and China don't care.... [View all]JackRiddler
(24,979 posts)in the 1940s convention, "rising population" is in no way a criterion.
Genocide in international law is the attempt to extinguish a group due to their ethnicity, religion, race or nationality. Such an attempt is still genocide even if the population of this group rises. You need to reconsider your extremely disturbing idea that it wouldn't be.
The definition has always been weak and allowed imperial mass murder as a lesser crime. You can murder millions as long as it's only because they're in the way of your desire to seize, exploit or otherwise degrade their country, but short of a motive to specifically kill members of their group.
It doesn't work that way with bank robberies. If you kill people in the course of another felony that's generally considered the worse crime.