Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz Quotes About Genocide

• The importance of the term "genocide" for many Indigenous Peoples is that it is more than a term or an accusation; it is a word created in the wake of the Shoah in Europe to describe what happens when a people are targeted by a government for extermination, as were the Jews of Europe, and which is the term used in the most important international law related to concerned Indigenous Peoples, as the only international human rights law that pertains specifically to collectivities of people rather than individuals.

  Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

  Rights, Government, Europe

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• The objective of US authorities was to terminate their existence as peoples - not as random individuals. This is the very definition of modern genocide.

  Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

  Definitions, Modern, Genocide

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• The term "genocide" is often incorrectly assumed to mean extreme examples of mass murder associated with war, with the death of millions of individuals, as, for instance in Cambodia. Although clearly the Holocaust was the most extreme of all genocides, the bar set by the Nazis is not the bar required to be considered genocide. Most importantly, genocide does not have to be complete to be considered genocide.

  Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

  War, Mean, Holocaust

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• Cases of genocide carried out as policy may be found in historical documents as well as in the oral histories of Indigenous communities.

  Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

  Community, Historical, May

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