The concept of genocide and our individual horror at its evil is being normalized by the great powers proceeding under the guise of “development.” The old hatreds of individual groups, races, peoples, engineered by colonization are increasingly rationalized by the standard business practices which profit from a group’s destruction. A primary difficulty with the expansion of corporate markets and takeover of regions for access to or impounding of resources is that the need for profits replaces the concern for the region’s people who under truly democratic government are the owners of the resources. Aside from laws against mass murder the intentional destruction of a national group falls within the prohibitions of the U.N. “Convention of the Punishment and Prevention of the Crime of Genocide.” We see the conquest, occupation and demand for subservience of one country after another and note that foreign control is soon accompanied by destruction of the country’s native resistance, destroying its culture and the institutions that protect the people’s traditions.
Author: J. B. Gerald
Published at: 2025-12-22 22:10:32
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