[Peace-discuss] UN Definition of Genocide

[David Johnson via Peace-discuss]

Yes,

Israel has committed every single item you listed, except the last item, 
and the U.S. State Dept. has supported a multitude of governments over 
the decades since world war II who have done all of the items you listed.

David J.

On 10/6/2014 8:25 PM, Roger Helbig via Peace-discuss wrote:
> Many of you should refresh your memory of what exactly "Genocide" is, 
> not just throw the term around because it seems like the thing to do - 
> comes from the US Holocaust Museum 
> http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10007043
>
> *THE CRIME OF GENOCIDE*
>
> On December 9, 1948, in the shadow of the Holocaust 
> <http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005143> and in no 
> small part due to the tireless efforts of Lemkin himself, the United 
> Nations approved the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of 
> the Crime of Genocide. This convention establishes "genocide” as an 
> international crime, which signatory nations “undertake to prevent and 
> punish.” It defines genocide as:
>
> /[G]enocide 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. /
>
>
>
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