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Come on'n get your jamaharon on! There are no real rules—just don't break the weather control network.
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The dictionary isn't a legal framework or international organization. The UN has a convention on genocide:
Item (c) comes the closest to what Sisko did, but he did it in a way that gave them a chance to get out, so it's not a perfect match. Forcing conditions for removing a group probably wouldn't qualify under any of these. That said, it can be a factor in Ethnic Cleansing, but the Maquis aren't really an ethnic group.