POL101Y1 Lecture : Genocide and Justice

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Genocide is committed with the intent to destroy, in whole or part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group. The convention on the prevention and punishment of the crime of genocide passed in 1948. 3 levels of criminal activity: genocide (most serious), crimes against humanity, war crimes. Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group. 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. Forcibly transferring children of one group to another group. Acts directed against political groups are excluded from the definition of genocide ex. Nuremberg; in response to first systematic intent and murder of mass scale i. e. jews in. The charter of the international military tribunal, passed in 1945 after wwii, described these atrocities as customary international crimes that justify international criminal sanctions, namely:

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