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
In the past five years, more than 200,000 men, women and children have been killed in the Darfur region of Sudan, and more than 2.5 million others have been…>> (read more)
ETHNIC cleansing is evil. It can never be condoned. Yet our repugnance at the act leaves us with a dilemma: What are we supposed to do in cases where…>> (read more)
DEBATE over whether America should withdraw from Iraq has turned primarily on strategic questions. But one need not be a utopian--or, more dreaded still, a "Wilsonian"--to see that not…>> (read more)
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