# I pit DrDeth **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 28, 2021, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971 "2021-02-28T19:52:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 983
**Author:** ![Lance\_Turbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lance_turbo/32/6156_2.png) [@Lance\_Turbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lance_Turbo)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2021, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/983 "2021-06-13T22:41:08Z")
> [@Martin\_Hyde](#): > > Under the formal international law definition of genocide no, this sort of thing doesn’t quite fit. [Here’s what the UN says](https://www.un.org/en/genocideprevention/genocide.shtml). > In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:\* > > 1. Killing members of the group; > 2. Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; > 3. Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; > 4. Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; > 5. Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group. The Canadian Indian residential school system is all about number 5 on that list and is unquestionably genocide, and the residential schools are only one aspect of the genocide that occurred. Here’s a pretty good summary from Canadian law professor Fannie Lafontaine… [How Canada committed genocide against Indigenous Peoples, explained by the lawyer central to the determination](https://theconversation.com/how-canada-committed-genocide-against-indigenous-peoples-explained-by-the-lawyer-central-to-the-determination-162582) --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971)._