Rivers of blue blood

In 1988 - The Iraqi regime under Saddam Hussein, attacked civilians using mustard gas and nerve agents, resulting in the death of an estimated 100,000 Iraqi Kurds.

In July 2004 - The US House of Representatives and the Senate passed resolutions, declaring the crisis in the Dafur region of Sudan to be genocide. An estimated 200,000 - 500,000 people were killed. These politically motivated killings,were condemned by the international community, and accountability was mandated.

The United Nations defined genocide in 1948, in the "Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide." To constitute genocide, acts must be carried out with the intent to destroy an ethnic, national, racial or religious group. Such acts include ANY of the following committed in wartime or peacetime.

a. killing members of the group.

b. Causing serious bodily or mental harm.

c. Deliberately inflicting conditions of life calculated to bring about the group's physical destruction, in whole or in part.

Intent is central in charging or proving genocide. The International Genocide Tribunal on Rwanda found Jean-Paul Akayesu, a former mayor of a Rwandan district, guilty of genocide, because "he knew or should have known that the act committed would destroy in whole or in part, a group." However, if intent cannot be proved, an individual or group can still be guilty of "crimes against humanity."

Citizens in Democratic Party "blue states," who align themselves with the Democratic Party, can be said to fall into, or belong to a "national group." There was a deliberate intent to deprive this group of life-saving facilities, with the full knowledge, that death, and serious bodily and mental harm, would ensue to those infected with Covid-19. The group was deliberately inflicted with conditions which were calculated to bring about their destruction in part. The actions of the Trump Administration, should be investigated to determine whether they amount to "genocide" or "crimes against humanity." The world waits.

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