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Genocide
Genocide is the deliberate and systematic destruction of an ethnic, racial, religious, or national group.
While precise definition varies among genocide scholars, a legal definition is found in the 1948 United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. Article 2, of this convention defines genocide as "any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such: killing members of the group; causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life, calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; [and] forcibly transferring children of the group to another group."[1]
Rwanda genocide tribunal gives military officer life sentence on genocide charges
[JURIST] The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) on Tuesday sentenced former Rwandan Armed Forces Colonel Tharcisse Renzaho to life imprisonment after convicting him of crimes in connection with the 1994 Rwandan genocide...
Genocide Prevention Task Force Delivers Blueprint for U.S. Government to Prevent Genocide and Mass Atrocities
"The Genocide Prevention Task Force was launched on November 13, 2007 and released its report to the public on December....
Rwanda: No Conspiracy, No Genocide Planning ... No Genocide?
JURIST Guest Columnist Peter Erlinder of William Mitchell College of Law and a Lead Defense Counsel at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), says that if - as the ICTR recently ruled in the "Military I" trial - alleged "masterminds" Colonel Theoneste Bagosora and fellow top Rwandan military officers engaged in no conspiracy and no planning to kill ethnic civilians, the tragedy that engulfed Rwanda in 1994 may not properly be called a "genocide" at all...
The Situation of Genocide
Courtney Yager of CNN has an interesting piece on the work of Harvard University psychiatrist Robert Lifton, who has studied the psychology of genocides and found that situational factors can lead any human to partake in genocides...
May: Addressing Genocide
What will Obama do about the genocide taking place in the Sudanese region of Darfur? And what will he do about the genocidal threats against Israelis being made by Irans rulers, and by the terrorist groups they sponsor, Hamas and Hezbollah?
Interesting response to genocide
At Concurring Opinions. I suppose by that rationale, one could prosecute the French resistance, and the Russian partisans, for failure to adhere to the rules of war...
















