“Genocide” is a word made up of the root word “geno,” meaning gene or genetic, and the suffix “cide,” meaning to kill, resulting in a word meaning to kill off the genes, genetic structure or substance, of a people, i.e., to remove from reproductive existence, to exterminate a people, to extirpate them, to kill them off forever.
The indigenous people of Tasmania and Australia and the Arawaks are prime examples of genocide.
In the same way, our genocide is an intricate part of the European’s vision, for genocide is simply the procedural framework through which they operate to win war. And war, for them, is to completely destroy another people.
If this people cannot be immediately annihilated, then they must be made to internalize a subordinate status until they can be.
To this definition we must add the fact that such mass destruction, by default, assures the obliteration of that group’s cultural base because to destroy a people’s sense of self through erasing or seriously distorting their story beyond their recognition (historicide) causes them to unwittingly and willingly allow their own genocide.
With time and an ancestral disconnect, the fear that makes genocide possible ensures that people will actively assist in the implementation and perpetuation of their own destruction.”
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