Month: August 2020

Source: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/genocide-fast-facts/ar-BBVdu6N

The Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide was adopted by the United Nations after World War II.

Article II of the Convention defines genocide as any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group:

(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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