“What distinguishes genocide from murder, and even from acts of political murder that claim as many victims, is the intent. The crime is wanting to make a people extinct. The idea is the crime.”
Philip Gourevitch
We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families
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