Deracination

Bartolomé Clavero, a Spanish jurist and historian, specialised in legal history, differentiates ethnocide from genocide by stating that:

"Genocide kills people while ethnocide kills social cultures through the killing of individual souls"

Some substitute cultural genocide (a central component in Lemkin's formulation of genocide) for ethnocide and others argue the distinction between ethnicity and culture. While the term "ethnocide" and "ethnic cleansing" are similar, the intentions of their use vary. The term "ethnic cleansing" has been criticised as a euphemism for genocide denial, while "ethnocide" tries to facilitate the opposite.

Raphael Lemkin, the linguist and lawyer who coined genocide in 1943 as the union of "the Greek word genos (race, tribe) and the Latin cide (killing)", also suggested ethnocide as an alternative form representing the same concept, using the Greek ethnos (nation) in place of genos.

Deracination is:

• to remove or separate from a native environment or culture
• especially : to remove the racial or ethnic characteristics or influences from

Article 7 of a 1994 draft of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples uses the word "ethnocide" as well as the phrase "cultural genocide" but it does not define what they mean. The complete article reads as follows: Indigenous peoples have the collective and individual right not to be subjected to ethnocide and cultural genocide, including prevention of and redress for:

1. Any action which has the aim or effect of depriving them of their integrity as distinct peoples, or of their cultural values or ethnic identities;
2. Any action which has the aim or effect of dispossessing them of their lands, territories or resources;
3. Any form of population transfer which has the aim or effect of violating or undermining any of their rights;
4. Any form of assimilation or integration by other cultures or ways of life imposed on them by legislative, administrative or other measures;
5. Any form of propaganda directed against them.

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