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'''{{FULLPAGENAME}}''' is the deliberate and systematic extermination of a national, racial, political, or cultural group.<ref>{{REFweb | '''{{FULLPAGENAME}}''' is the deliberate and systematic extermination of a national, racial, political, or cultural group.<ref>{{REFweb | ||
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After the abuses of World War II, the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted the Genocide Convention on 9 December 1948 by Resolution 260A (III).<ref name="genocide1948">{{REFdocument|title=Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide | ==Genocide Convention== | ||
After the abuses of World War II, the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted the ''Genocide Convention'' on 9 December 1948 by Resolution 260A (III).<ref name="genocide1948">{{REFdocument|title=Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide | |||
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}}</ref> | }}</ref> The Convention defines genocide and makes it a crime. | ||
Article II of the Convention defines genocide as: | |||
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In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such: | |||
(a) Killing members of the group; | |||
(b) {{Highlighting|Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;}} | |||
(c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; | |||
(d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; | |||
(e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.<ref name="genocide1948" /> | |||
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==International Criminal Court== | |||
The [[International Criminal Court]], which sits at The Hague in the [[Netherlands]], has authority to try persons charged with genocide. | |||
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* [[Human rights]] | |||
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