PSYCH 217 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Brad Delson
16 Apr 2016
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The internaional convenion for the prevenion and punishment of the crime of. Acts commited with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a naional, ethnic, racial, or religious group. Also forced removal, expropriaion of land, seizing children, cultural destrucion. Total exterminaion not required to be the goal. Genocide has a legal deiniion there can be a debate about whether something is, or is not genocide in legal terms . But, mass killings and the targeing or killings from combatants to the unarms marks an important shif. Direct killing as well as creaing situaions where people die from starvaion and disease. Genocides are not bound by culture, religion, or region of the world: Armenian genocide: a contested genocide: an important precursor to our understanding of the holocaust. In the break-up of the otoman empire and the formaion of modern turkey. But, forced marches, expropriaion of property, evidence of planned massacres.
