> South Africa doesn’t satisfy ‘genocide’ definition

>Under the United Nations definition, genocide requires acts, such as murder and serious bodily or mental harm, “committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such.” There is no evidence that South Africa, whose agriculture minister is White, has made or overseen any such effort.

>The claim of a genocide against White South African farmers has been pushed for years by White nationalist groups. Trump, who has expedited the processing of White South Africans as refugees even while keeping all other US refugee resettlement suspended, raised the notion of a genocide last week and repeated it during a contentious Wednesday meeting with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa in front of cameras at the White House.

>Trump said at one point Wednesday: “So we take (refugees) from many locations if we feel there’s persecution or genocide going on. And we had a lot of people, I must tell you Mr. President – we have had a tremendous number of people, especially since they’ve seen this – generally they’re white farmers, and they’re fleeing South Africa.”

>During the meeting, Trump brandished printouts of what he said were reports about White South Africans being killed. He also had Ramaphosa sit through a video montage that included a clip of a demonstration featuring white crosses symbolizing South African farmers who were killed.

>Trump wrongly identified these as “burial sites” – evoking the image of a mass grave – rather than symbols. And while Trump did tell a reporter that “I haven’t made up my mind” about whether genocide is occurring, he didn’t explain that murders of White farmers are a miniscule percentage of overall murders in South Africa.

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