LAWS 3307 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Machismo, Ethnic Group, Social Stratification
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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: a killing members of the group; Causing serious bodily harm 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; Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; d e forcibly transferring children to another group. Propositio(cid:374)s a(cid:271)out ge(cid:374)o(cid:272)ide a(cid:374)d mass (cid:858)clea(cid:374)si(cid:374)g(cid:859: murderous cleansing is modern because it is actually related to the development of democracy, in multiethnic environments, the majority may come to tyrannize minorities, de(cid:373)o(cid:272)ra(cid:272)(cid:455) (cid:373)ea(cid:374)s rule (cid:271)(cid:455) the people. Climate of rising violence and destabilization: plan c: murderous cleansing, there are three main levels of perpetrator, radical elites running party states or powerful organizations, bands of militants forming violent paramilitaries, core constituencies providing mass popular support.
