POLS 243 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Natural Disaster
1 Dec 2014
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Seek to eliminate problem of diversity through killing of minorities. Article 1: the contracting parties confirm that genocide, whether committed in times of peace or times of war is a crime under int"l law which they undertake to prevent and to punish. Article 2: acts with intent to destroy a national ethnical racial or religious group. Article 2b: causing serious bodily or mental harm. Armenian genocide: weren"t executed, taken from homes (deported) into syrian desert under inhumane conditions. Definition is too narrow "national, ethnic, racial or religious" not included are people such as economic classes. Was questioned if they committed genocide against ukrainians or a certain class in the. Too narrow because it doesn"t bomb aerial bombardments on civilians, dresden, Genocide also a crime of omission-> e. g. natural disaster, military adversaries in your area and you fail to act. > needs a state with capacities to systematically kill massive amounts of people.
