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‘Genocide’, ‘human rights’ and what’s lost in translation | Frontier Myanmar
“undeserving” communities. We need to first make sure people understand the basic but important
terms, before we ask for their participation in defending human rights and preventing genocide.
Correction: This article has been updated to provide a fuller definition of genocide, by stating that
it can be directed at “a national, ethnical, racial or religious group”.
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