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genocide definition
- Date: Sat, 17 Apr 1999 13:15:01 -0400 (EDT)
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Article II of the 1948 U.N. Convention on Genocide states the following
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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) 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.
This is what "genocide" means for the purposes of international law.
Legal definition is a very blunt instrument of definition.
AGF question: blunt or sharp enough for [a],[b],[c] to include
NATO and US/UK bombing of Serbians and Iraqis?
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