PHIL 259 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Functionalism Versus Intentionalism, Charismatic Authority, Natural Disaster
20 Oct 2016
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The contracting parties confirm that genocide, whether committed in time of peace or in time of war, is crime under international law which they undertake to prevent and to punish. In the present convention, 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 (have to be killing the group, as such". Still not killing people but if you prevent them from eating, you are still leading them to death: imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group, forcibly transferring children of the group to another group. Eg. killed chinese because they were communist, not because they were chinese; this does not include in article 2. Hiroshima nagasaki bombing can be considered a genocide on. Japan, but a counter argument is that it was only to end the war.
