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Jonassohn (1992), and Barbara Harff (1992), among others. They have either agreed to expand
the U. N. definition or to coin additional terms such as politicide, to describe the state
violence against groups that are not ethnically, “racially,” or religiously based.
17. There are a number of other issues having to do with, for example, intentionality
and other preconditions for genocide, all of which are ably raised and discussed in a volume
edited by George Andreopoulos entitled Genocide (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania
Press, 1994).
18. I use the term minority reluctantly and only because it is in general usage. People described
as “minorities” often object to the terminology because of its connotations of minor,
less than, with fewer rights than.
19. Harff (1992) argues that genocide is far less likely in a democracy than in an authoritarian
or totalitarian state. While this may be so, we should not to be too sanguine about
democracy in and of itself as a deterrent to political violence. While it may prevent it in the
metropoles or at least restrict it to “tolerable” numbers there, democratic states have been
direct or indirect participants or supporters of political violence in client states around the
world (see, for example, Ebihara and Ledgerwood, this volume). Like economics and politics
in general, political violence, including genocide is or has become an aspect of the contemporary
transnational world (Falk 2000).
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