Genocide is defined by the United Nations (UN) as the policy of deliberately and systematically killing a national, racial, ethnic, or religious group.
a communist organization formed in Cambodia in 1970; became a terrorist organization in 1975 when it captured Phnom Penh and created a government that killed an estimated three million people; was defeated by Vietnamese troops but remained active until 1999
For example, many scholars and human rights advocates recognize and refer to the atrocities in Cambodia committed by the Khmer Rouge in the late 1970s (responsible for the deaths of an estimated 1.5 million Cambodian people) as genocide.
The ICC has used this authority to bring charges of genocide relating to the ongoing conflict in Sudan's Darfur province against various members of the Sudanese government, including President Omar al-Bashir (1944–).
For example, many scholars and human rights advocates recognize and refer to the atrocities in Cambodia committed by the Khmer Rouge in the late 1970s (responsible for the deaths of an estimated 1.5 million Cambodian people) as genocide.
of or relating to or characteristic of the African Republic of the Sudan or its people
The ICC has used this authority to bring charges of genocide relating to the ongoing conflict in Sudan's Darfur province against various members of the Sudanese government, including President Omar al-Bashir (1944–).
Perhaps ironically for a man who fled the Nazi persecution of European Jews, Lemkin's idea for the term originated from his hearing of the mass murder of Christian Assyrians in Iraq in 1933.
a crime committed in wartime; violation of rules of war
In May 2009, a Canadian court found Rwandan Desire Munyaneza (1966–) guilty of genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity in connection with the Rwandan genocide.
Many human rights advocates, historians, and other scholars assert that the term genocide should also apply to politically motivated mass killings, state-sponsored systematic mass killings, the targeted mass execution of cultural or social groups, and other mass killings that rise to a level that shocks the conscience.
denoting or deriving from or distinctive of the ways of living built up by a group of people
According to Article II, genocide “means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group: 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 mass murder of Jews under the German Nazi regime from 1941 until 1945
It was used as the basis of the Nuremburg trials (1945–49) against twenty-four Nazi war criminals, who, among other crimes, faced charges relating to the Holocaust, in which 6.5 million Jews and Romani were killed.
an offender who violates international law during times of war
It was used as the basis of the Nuremburg trials (1945–49) against twenty-four Nazi war criminals, who, among other crimes, faced charges relating to the Holocaust, in which 6.5 million Jews and Romani were killed.
Similarly, the politically motivated mass murders perpetrated by Soviet leader Joseph Stalin (1878–1953) in the 1930s or Chinese leader Mao Zedong (1893–1976) in the 1950s and 1960s would not be classed as genocide under a narrow definition of the term, despite the fact that millions of people died.
Conversely, within Turkey, stating that the Armenian massacres were genocidal can be punished by a jail term on the charge of “public denigration” of Turkey's national character.
a nation in southeastern Asia; was part of Indochina under French rule until 1946
For example, many scholars and human rights advocates recognize and refer to the atrocities in Cambodia committed by the Khmer Rouge in the late 1970s (responsible for the deaths of an estimated 1.5 million Cambodian people) as genocide.
the mass expulsion and killing of one ethnic or religious group in an area by another ethnic or religious group in that area
In 2001, the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) judged that the massacre was genocide, while simultaneously ruling that other incidents of ethnic cleansing within the same conflict fell outside the definition.
Lemkin eventually reached the United States and in November 1944 published Axis Rule in Occupied Europe, an exposition of Nazi Germany's policies of mass extermination, deportations, and slave labor.
a former communist country in eastern Europe and northern Asia; established in 1922; included Russia and 14 other soviet socialist republics (Ukraine and Byelorussia and others); officially dissolved 31 December 1991
It is interesting to note that the USSR under Stalin refused to adopt the CPPCG until the term “politically motivated” killings was removed from a draft.
a republic in northeastern Africa on the Red Sea; achieved independence from Egypt and the United Kingdom in 1956
The ICC has used this authority to bring charges of genocide relating to the ongoing conflict in Sudan's Darfur province against various members of the Sudanese government, including President Omar al-Bashir (1944–).
denoting or deriving from or distinctive of the ways of living built up by a group of people
Genocide is defined by the United Nations (UN) as the policy of deliberately and systematically killing a national, racial, ethnic, or religious group.
of or relating to the Gypsies or their language or culture
It was used as the basis of the Nuremburg trials (1945–49) against twenty-four Nazi war criminals, who, among other crimes, faced charges relating to the Holocaust, in which 6.5 million Jews and Romani were killed.
Lemkin eventually reached the United States and in November 1944 published Axis Rule in Occupied Europe, an exposition of Nazi Germany's policies of mass extermination, deportations, and slave labor.
people of the same race or nationality who share a distinctive culture
Turkey's prime minister, Tayyip Erdogan (1954–), spoke out harshly against the Chinese government's crackdown on militant Uighurs, a Turkic ethnic group in China.
Russian leader who succeeded Lenin as head of the Communist Party and created a totalitarian state by purging all opposition (1879-1953)
Similarly, the politically motivated mass murders perpetrated by Soviet leader Joseph Stalin (1878–1953) in the 1930s or Chinese leader Mao Zedong (1893–1976) in the 1950s and 1960s would not be classed as genocide under a narrow definition of the term, despite the fact that millions of people died.
a Muslim republic in southern Asia bordered by India to the north and west and east and the Bay of Bengal to the south; formerly part of India and then part of Pakistan; it achieved independence in 1971
Yet during this same period genocides are alleged to have occurred in more than fifteen countries, including Australia, Bangladesh, and Lebanon.
(law) any basic right or freedom to which all human beings are entitled and in whose exercise a government may not interfere (including rights to life and liberty as well as freedom of thought and expression and equality before the law)
Many human rights advocates, historians, and other scholars assert that the term genocide should also apply to politically motivated mass killings, state-sponsored systematic mass killings, the targeted mass execution of cultural or social groups, and other mass killings that rise to a level that shocks the conscience.
the act of expelling a person from their native land
Lemkin eventually reached the United States and in November 1944 published Axis Rule in Occupied Europe, an exposition of Nazi Germany's policies of mass extermination, deportations, and slave labor.
an organization of independent states formed in 1945 to promote international peace and security
Genocide is defined by the United Nations (UN) as the policy of deliberately and systematically killing a national, racial, ethnic, or religious group.
Many human rights advocates, historians, and other scholars assert that the term genocide should also apply to politically motivated mass killings, state-sponsored systematic mass killings, the targeted mass execution of cultural or social groups, and other mass killings that rise to a level that shocks the conscience.
Lemkin eventually reached the United States and in November 1944 published Axis Rule in Occupied Europe, an exposition of Nazi Germany's policies of mass extermination, deportations, and slave labor.
Lemkin defined genocide as “a coordinated plan of different actions aiming at the destruction of essential foundations of the life of national groups, with the aim of annihilating the groups themselves.”
Russian leader who succeeded Lenin as head of the Communist Party and created a totalitarian state by purging all opposition (1879-1953)
Similarly, the politically motivated mass murders perpetrated by Soviet leader Joseph Stalin (1878–1953) in the 1930s or Chinese leader Mao Zedong (1893–1976) in the 1950s and 1960s would not be classed as genocide under a narrow definition of the term, despite the fact that millions of people died.
massacre
