Legally defined genocide excludes political groups though early drafts included them

Evidence

United Nations Convention on Genocide has provided a crucial point of reference: “Genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group” (United Nations, GAOR Resolution 260A (III) 9 December 1948, Article II). Strong arguments have been made in ensuing decades to broaden this definition. The resolution passed by the General Assembly in 1946 included “political” groups, but this category was deleted from the Convention itself. Kuper (1981) and others have continued to call for inclusion of the systematic extermination of political opponents in legal definitions of genocide. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 271

Categorization

• DEFINE: Sharply qualifies the canonical UN genocide definition by noting political groups were dropped between the 1946 resolution and the 1948 Convention.
• XREF: Useful against vault claims treating the UN definition as the settled baseline; political extermination is excluded on doctrinal grounds.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 271