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angrychair

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20. Well they are sending aid for a reason
Wed Feb 18, 2026, 01:39 PM
Wednesday

Hospitals are out of fuel and people are dying. It's also a little more that the typical rolling outages. Some parts of the island have been without power for days to try and keep infrastructure and hospitals running as long as possible. No refrigeration. Extreme food scarcity. Hospitals no longer function. No heat. Little to no water. Untreated sewage.

The term "genocide" as defined by the UN:

Genocide, as defined by the United Nations, refers to acts committed with the intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group. These acts include killing members of the group, causing serious bodily or mental harm, deliberately inflicting conditions of life calculated to bring about the group's destruction, preventing births, and forcibly transferring children to another group.


I've bolded the parts relevant to this situation. Some have a very narrow definition of"genocide" in that it only means the systematic and active murdering of an entire group of people through force.
That definition is way to narrow and could allow bad actors, like the US in this situation, to get away with killing an entire island of people and never actually firing a shot or even putting a single foot of a single member of its military on the island.

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