{"id":372716,"date":"2018-08-09T14:20:17","date_gmt":"2018-08-09T13:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/how-does-canada-escape-prosecution-for-genocide\/"},"modified":"2018-08-09T14:20:17","modified_gmt":"2018-08-09T13:20:17","slug":"how-does-canada-escape-prosecution-for-genocide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/how-does-canada-escape-prosecution-for-genocide\/","title":{"rendered":"How Does Canada Escape Prosecution for Genocide?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Can Canada continue to commit what is an enumerated act of genocide by the UNGC [United Nations Genocide Convention] and excuse itself by continuing to say that it is not intending what the Genocide Treaty recognizes as the result of such an act\u2026 ?<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tamara Starblanket<sup><\/sup><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Genocide is a heinous crime that fractures and dehumanizes humanity. Science tells us that we are all taxonomically <em>Homo sapiens<\/em>. Yet most of us tend to divide into Us and Them groupings, sometimes leading to in-group and out-group competition that can turn violent. In the worst cases, the monstrous result is the decimation of the different group.<\/p>\n<p>The carrying out of a genocide doesn\u2019t require annihilatory bombing or the mowing down of a particular targetted group. Neither does genocide require a lightning temporality in execution. Genocide merely requires the <em>intent<\/em> to bring about the destruction of a targetted group by whatever manner, unbounded by a specific timeframe. Humans steer genocide: a malicious force capable of an evil genius in linguistically guising its execution, as well as being capable of extreme patience in achieving its pernicious aims.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/?attachment_id=82751\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-82751\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-82751\" src=\"https:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Cover_TS-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Cover_TS-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Cover_TS.jpg 364w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><\/a>A particular example of an under-the-radar genocide is that carried out by European settler-colonialists who denationalized all the Original Nations of the western hemisphere. There are non-indigenous people who are aware and acknowledge that genocide occurred, but few would realize or acknowledge that the genocide continues. That is much of&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/2018\/08\/how-does-canada-escape-prosecution-for-genocide\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can Canada continue to commit what is an enumerated act of genocide by the UNGC [United Nations Genocide Convention] and excuse itself by continuing to say that it is not intending what the Genocide Treaty recognizes as the result of such an act\u2026 ? \u2014 Tamara Starblanket Genocide is a heinous crime that fractures and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2525,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-372716","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2525"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=372716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372716\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}