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'''{{FULLPAGENAME}}''' is the deliberate and systematic extermination of a national, racial, political, or cultural group.<ref>{{REFweb
|url=https://www.thefreedictionary.com/Genocide
|accessdate=2022-11-10
}}</ref>
==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
|url=https://www.ohchr.org/en/instruments-mechanisms/instruments/convention-prevention-and-punishment-crime-genocide
}}</ref> The Convention defines genocide and makes it a crime.
Article II of the Convention defines genocide as:
<blockquote>
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" />
</blockquote>
==International Criminal Court==
The [[International Criminal Court]], which sits at The Hague in the [[Netherlands]], has authority to try persons charged with genocide.
{{SEEALSO}}
* [[Human rights]]
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