Bill, this is a Chomsky list serve and Chomsky is a linguist.  The word genocide
is derived from genos (Gr) for race (or gens for a people) and caedere (Lt)
meaning to kill.  You seem to recognize this in qualifying your example of
Australian  aborigines as "at least cultural genocide".  However, I think that as
you recount the situation of Tasmanian aborigines actual genocide took place,
though partly by indirection.  This, however, is not what has been happening in
Kosovo, as horrific as what has been happening is.   This is what I pointed out,
but you seem to have missed the point.  If  you don't see the difference, you are
welcome to your view, wrong and linguistically incorrect though I think it may
be.  Regardless, there is nothing to be gained by responding further on this
point..

Dan Koenig

Bill Bartlett wrote:

> Dan Koenig wrote:
>
> >I agree with DDeBar that the term genocide is being used a bit too freely. It
> >would be a novel form of genocide to allow a people's women, older men, and
> >young boys to flee with their lives.
>
> I have to disagree. Anyhow, these people are not being "allowed" to flee
> with their lives, they are being driven out at gun-point.
>
> Australia has a similar history of genocide against the aboriginal
> inhabitants. They were not all killed, in many places they were rounded up
> and moved thousands of miles across the country to reserves. Their culture
> being tied to their land this was clearly genocide, cultural genocide at
> least.
>
> In Tasmania, to our shame, this genocide was at its most efficient. After
> many years of war and attrition, the remaining full-blood Tasmanian
> Aborigines were all shipped to a small island in Bass Strait. Every man,
> woman and child of them. Here most of them eventually perished in exile.
> The last remaining 2 full-blood Tasmanian Aborigines were eventually
> permitted to return to the Tasmanian mainland to live out the rest of their
> lives as curiousities. Truganinni was the last to perish.
>
> >That was not exactly the approach taken by Hitler.
>
> Hitler used industrial methods, but he began with deportation. The Serbian
> military uses the old-fashioned way. The object is the same - to get rid of
> an entire people. Genocide, pure and simple.
>
> Bill Bartlett
> Bracknell Tas.