We are not experts in international laws around genocide but we tend to believe that any attempt to obliterate or wipe out the identity of any group of people should constitute an act of genocide.
Still based on our crude judgement, any effort that made half of a population of a given geographic area to give up their citizenship either coercively or otherwise should constitute an act of genocide.
This claim by MP Oumar Ceesay Souvane that Gambian documents were used as bait to entice possibly thousands of Senegalese people to ditch their citizenship for The Gambia, therefore needs to be investigated to avoid an extinction of an identity
