POL101Y1 Lecture : POL101, Jan 16, Genocide and justice.docx

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Genocide is committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial, or religious group. 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. Imprisonment: war crimes, orviolations of the laws and customs of war namely: Deportation for slave labor or for any other purpose of the civilian population of or in occupied territory. Precedents: the trial of nazi war criminals at nuremberg for genocide and crimes against humanity after their defeat in world war 2. Not a defence to say they were just following orders. 3 things in the 90"s: un recreating what was modeled by the nuremberg trials.

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