Gale: Global Issues in Context, Genocide

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.

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.

The ICTR, established to try cases connected with the Rwandan genocide, was given until 2008 to complete its prosecutions.

The prison, which is located in the Cambodian capital Phnom Penh, has been converted into the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum.

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.

Some countries have criminalized some forms of expression of denial of specific incidents of genocide.

In 1995, Serb militias killed 8,000 Bosnian-Serbs in the Srebrenica massacre.

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.

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 ...

Austria and Germany are two of a handful of countries to make Holocaust denial a criminal offence.

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.

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.

The prison, which is located in the Cambodian capital Phnom Penh, has been converted into the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum.

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.

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.

In Rwanda in April and May 1994, between eight hundred thousand and one million ethnic Tutsis were massacred by their Hutu neighbors.

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–).

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.

In Rwanda in April and May 1994, between eight hundred thousand and one million ethnic Tutsis were massacred by their Hutu neighbors.

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.

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.

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.

Yet during this same period genocides are alleged to have occurred in more than fifteen countries, including Australia, Bangladesh, and Lebanon.

The government responded by sending in militias that systematically murdered, raped, and terrorized the people of Darfur.

Several dozen Uighurs were killed by Chinese security forces, and Erdogan labeled the actions a "genocide."

Genocide is defined by the United Nations (UN) as the policy of deliberately and systematically killing a national, racial, ethnic, or religious group.

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.

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.

The UN Security Council recently authorized the court to continue hearing cases until the end of 2010.