POL101Y1 Lecture : Genocide

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Genocide is committed with intent to destroy, in whole, or in par, a national, ethnical, racial, or religious group. The convention on the prevention and punishment of the crime of genocide. Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group: forcibly transferring children of one group to another group, acts directed against political groups are excluded from the definition of genocide. Differences between war crimes and crimes against humanity: one instance of a reprehensible act could be a war crime, but not a crime against humanity. The latter must be shown to have resulted from widespread and systematic policy: also crimes against humanity (e. g. destruction of property and systematic persecution) can occur in any setting, while a war crimes takes place only during war. A truth commission is: a temporary body, set up by an official authority (president, parliament) to.

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