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I wanted to start this thread in the Loft to keep the temperature down, but the word itself is a magnet for strong responses. There has been a lot of rhetoric, informed and not, about what "genocide" is, and whether it is occurring in Russia's operation in Ukraine. I thought putting it in context was important to inform the discussion.
"Genocide" as a term was coined in 1944. It was a significant basis for the post-war prosecutions of Nazis as a "crime against humanity". The understanding of the concept has been clarified and codified in International Humanitarian Law in the ensuing decades, and the subject of discussion for many philosophers and lawyers.
It was first recognized as a crime by the UN General Assembly in 1946 and codified as a crime in the Genocide Convention in 1948, and the Rome Statute adopted 50 years later, pursuant to which, "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:
"Genocide" as a term was coined in 1944. It was a significant basis for the post-war prosecutions of Nazis as a "crime against humanity". The understanding of the concept has been clarified and codified in International Humanitarian Law in the ensuing decades, and the subject of discussion for many philosophers and lawyers.
It was first recognized as a crime by the UN General Assembly in 1946 and codified as a crime in the Genocide Convention in 1948, and the Rome Statute adopted 50 years later, pursuant to which, "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:
- Killing members of the group;
- Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
- Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
- Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
- Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.