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Genocide means any of the
following acts committed with
intent to destroy, in whole or in Killing members of a group
part, a national, ethnical, racial
or religious group: Causing serious bodily harm/ mental harm to members of a group
Deliberately inflicting on the group’s conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical
destruction in whole or in part thereof
Imposing measures intended to prevent births w/in group
Forcibly transferring children of a group to another group.
Post WW11 trials combined physical and cultural destruction
United Nations into the definition of genocide.
(UN) definition: Modern international courts and tribunals’ focus has limited
Genocide & ‘destruction’ to physical or biological destruction of the group
ethnic
cleansing in Legal application of genocide remains confined to physical or
international biological destruction
humanitarian Key definitional Dissolution of [the group’s] unit and/or collective identity’ was
law Destroy also part of genocide
elements of
genocide
Challenge of determining what constitutes a ‘part’ of a group
In part Part must be a substantial part of that group
Quantitative assessment
Groups Significant section of the group
National, ethnical, racial and religious
Limit targeted groups to ‘stable and permanent’ groups
Collection of people w/ a particular group identity
Status of a group subjectively determined
Definitions of each group category
Conspiracy, public incitement and attempt to commit genocide as well as complicity in genocide are equally punishable acts.
If state commits or contributes to genocide – international community only body able to intervene.
Convention impotent to convict governments if they did not actively perpetrate the crime.
Politicide
Democide
Ethnic cleansing
Purposeful policy designed by one ethnic or religious group to remove by violent and terror-inspiring means the civilian population of
another ethnic or religious group from certain geographic areas.
It is carried out in the name of misguided nationalism, historic grievances and a powerful driving force for revenge.
Ethnic cleansing has been carried out through murder, torture, arbitrary arrest, detention, extrajudicial executions, rape, etc.
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