Saturday, April 26, 2008

GENOCIDE


“GENOCIDE means any of the following acts committed with the intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group as such:

  • Killing members of the group;
  • Causing serious mental or bodily harm to the members;
  • Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part”

(source: UN convention on Genocide)

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