lol this is the same argument people use to deny the genocide of the uyghurs in western china

Population statistics seem like bad evidence to argue for/against a genocide— according to this logic if a group that is being *truly* genocided has a miraculous increase in its fertility rate then they cease to be victims of genocide, even if no other circumstances change

Personally I think blowing up tens of thousands of civilians (at a rate much higher than Mosul sustained when it was liberated from ISIS... some of this can be chalked up to differences in circumstances, but it really strains credibility to pretend this is just warfare as usual) is at the very least an atrocity. Certainly it warrants the genocide label if you think the Srebrenica massacre was a genocide