Expanding the Definiton of Genocide

[Benjamin Barrett]

Googling for

define:genocide

results in definitions for genocide including racial, political, cultural,
religious, ethnic, or national group; an entire people, a population, or a
nation; and a language, religion or culture of a group. A similar definition
is in the papers today
(http://archives.seattletimes.nwsource.com/cgi-bin/texis.cgi/web/vortex/disp
lay?slug=sungenocide19
<http://archives.seattletimes.nwsource.com/cgi-bin/texis.cgi/web/vortex/disp
lay?slug=sungenocide19&date=20050619&query=genocide>
&date=20050619&query=genocide) "defined by the United Nations as 'a specific
series of acts committed with intent to destroy in whole or in part, a
national, ethnic, racial, or religious group'" in "Preventing Genocide" by
Eric B. Larson and Reva N. Adler.

What seems to be missing from these definitions is genocide based on sex and
sexual orientation: "gay genocide" gets 618 Googits, "homosexual genocide"
gets 106, "sexual genocide" 238, "female genocide" 931, and "male genocide"
176. Perhaps these fit into "population", though that term seems a better
fit for prisoner genocide also seen in Nazi Germany.

Benjamin Barrett
Baking the World a Better Place
www.hiroki.us