In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such: (a) Killing members of the group; (b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; (c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; (d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; (e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.'-Article II, Convention on the Crime of Genocide 1Few Australians recognise that genocide was perpetrated here.'We wiped them out' is a common belief about Tasmania's Aborigines -but even that acknowledged elimination doesn't accord with our current notion of genocide.For a very small minority, genocide means a fleeting knowledge of forced death marches, 85 years ago, of Armenian women and children from eastern Turkey to Syria.For the great majority, the perception of genocide resides in that other planet, Auschwitz, where the mussulmänner, scarcely human beings, are draped across the wire, awaiting gas and crematoria.Closer to home is a John Pilger documentary showing stacks of Cambodian skulls shattered by Pol Pot and his minions -a unique case of auto-genocide.The immediate lounge room image of genocide is Rwanda in 1994, presented as tribal savagery in darkest Africa; or of Kosovars or Bosnian Muslims fleeing torture, rape and mass death for obscure feudal reasons in unpronounceable arenas somewhere in a place known vaguely as the Balkans.How could any of these remote horrors have anything to do with democratic Australia?
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