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Chau a villain, not a saviour

It was a deliberate act carried out by somebody who must have been well aware of the disease risks he posed. He would, by definition, be guilty of genocide if he was carrying any diseases he passed on

John Allen Chau
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Devangshu Datta
Accusing somebody of genocide should not be done casually. It is defined in the UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide as "the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group: killing members of the group; causing serious bodily or mental harm to members; deliberately inflicting on the group, conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; imposing measures intended to prevent births; forcibly transferring children of the group.”

Unfortunately, human beings have a tendency to commit
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