Board Thread:Online Discussion/@comment-14350577-20131024162905/@comment-1470368-20150811143843

I'll give you guys that. The Thalmor are radical, and have purged many of those who rebelled against them, even groups of their own Altmer people who fled.

That's not quite "genocide", though. That's not why the Thalmor are in Skyrim.

Ondolemar is still one of the only real friends you'll get in the Thalmor. Another being Ancarion, in the Dragonborn DLC, who will willingly pay the Dragonborn for any Stalhrim equipment he/she brings to him.