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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; | |||
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(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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Genocide is the deliberate and systematic extermination of a national, racial, political, or cultural group.[1]
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).[2] The Convention defines genocide and makes it a crime.
Article II of the Convention defines genocide as:
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) 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.[2]
References
- ↑
(2016). Genocide
, The Free Dictionary by Farlex. Retrieved 10 November 2022. - ↑ a b
Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, United Nations. (9 December 1948). Retrieved 10 November 2022.
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