Genocide
As defined by the United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (1948), genocide occurs when anyone attempts to destroy a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group by any of several methods. These include killing group members, causing them serious physical or mental harm, deliberately placing them in conditions expected to destroy them, attempting to prevent them from having children, or forcibly transferring their children to another group.
The word "genocide" first appeared in print in 1944 in the book Axis Rule in Occupied Europe by Raphael Lemkin, a Jewish lawyer and political refugee from Nazi-occupied Poland. Lemkin's goal was to alert America as to what was happening to the Jewish population in areas of Europe that were…>> (read more)
Genocide Points of View
5 Persistence of Human Brutality
6 Need for a Permanent International Criminal Court
7 Early Warning System Can Prevent Genocide
8 Hitler's Final Solution
9 Genocide at the Cambodian Killing Fields
10 Ethnic Cleansing in Bosnia-Herzegovina
11 Genocide in Rwanda
12 Defining Genocide
13 Tibetans Under Chinese Rule
14 Canada's Cultural Genocide: Forced Removal of Native Children
15 African Americans: Victims of Indirect Genocide
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Genocide in the News
Byline: Walter Addiego; Chronicle Staff Writer
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Drama. Directed by Lee Isaac Chung. With Jeff Rutagengwa and Eric Dorunkundiye. In…>> (read more)
Johannes Baptist Metz warned fellow theologians not to divorce talk about God from the realities of their times. Reflecting on the twentieth century, Metz wrote that the horrors of…>> (read more)
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In 1933, the recently elected administration of Franklin D. Roosevelt granted official U.S. recognition to the Soviet Union for the first time. Especially repugnant was…>> (read more)
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