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The
Court
spends
much
time
in
its
reasoning
on
the
issue
of
whether
the
scope
of
the
genocide
definition
in
the
Genocide
Convention
included
political
groups
.
The
answer
it
provides
in
paragraph
175
of
the
present
judgment
is
,
in
principle
,
correct
.
The
real
question
before
the
Court
,
however
,
is
whether
national
partisans
formed
–
in
terms
of
their
role
and
number
–
a
group
whose
continuous
existence
was
essential
for
the
survival
of
the
Lithuanian
nation
.
In
other
words
,
the
Court
should
have
been
able
to
distinguish
between
,
on
the
one
hand
,
a
prominent
part
of
a
national
group
being
targeted
for
political
,
social
or
,
in
any
event
,
discriminatory
reasons
,
and
,
on
the
other
,
a
political
group
,
plain
and
simple
.
There
is
nothing
in
the
history
of
outlawing
genocide
which
would
exclude
from
its
scope
an
intention
to
destroy
in
part
or
as
a
whole
a
(
national
)
group
for
political
and
otherwise
discriminatory
purposes
.
Regrettably
,
the
Court
has
not
examined
this
issue
,
which
is
crucial
to
the
case
.
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