Causes+of+Genocide

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 * 1) -As a crime, the UHCG defined genocide as the intention to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such.
 * 2) -One is the definition of genocide as the intention to murder people because of their group membership, even if political or economic.
 * 3) -A second definition, which may also be called //democide //, is any intentional government murder of unarmed and helpless people for whatever reason.
 * 4) -There is a high correlation between the degree of democratic freedom a people enjoy and the likelihood that the government will commit democide.
 * 5) -Genocide is foremost an international crime for which individuals, no matter how high in authority, may be indicted, tried, and punished by the International Criminal Court (ICC)
 * 6) -committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:
 * 7) (a) Killing members of the group;
 * 8) (b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
 * 9) (c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
 * 10) (d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
 * 11) (e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group."
 * 12) -In 1998, 120 countries voted to adopt the treaty establishing the ICC. With its Statute signed by 139 states and ratified by 76, the ICC formally came into existence on July 1, 2002 at The Hague, in the Netherlands
 * 13) -Lemkin played an important role in the Nuremberg International Military Tribunal trials of Nazi war criminals. He also lobbied at the UN during its debate on genocide, which concluded with the General Assembly resolution that "genocide is a crime under international law which the civilized world condemns, and for the commission of which principals and accomplices are punishable."
 * 14) -They were indicted for "War Crimes" (Count Three), which included the "deliberate and systematic genocide; viz., the extermination of racial and national groups, against the civilian population of certain occupied territories in order to destroy particular races and classes of people, and national, racial, or religious groups, particularly Jews, Poles, and Gypsies."
 * 15) -Holocaust like occurrences. For this reason, infused as it is with the memory of piles of corpses, gas ovens, and helpless men, women, and children in long lines being led to gas ovens or to face machine guns, genocide has been considered among the worst international crimes
 * 16) - For these reasons, genocide scholars have tried to develop their own definitions of genocide that would better fit their understanding of such government murder. Below are four definitions that have a following among researchers.
 * 17) -"Genocide is a form of one-sided mass killing in which a state or other authority intends to destroy a group, as that group and membership in it are defined by the perpetrator." (Frank Chalk and Kurt Jonassohn)
 * 18) -"Genocide in the generic sense is the mass killing of substantial numbers of human beings, when not in the course of military forces of an avowed enemy, under conditions of the essential defenselessness and helplessness of the victims." (Israel W. Charny).
 * 19) -"Genocide is sustained purposeful action by a perpetrator to physically destroy a collectivity directly or indirectly, through interdiction of the biological and social reproduction of group members, sustained regardless of the surrender or lack of threat offered by the victim." (Helen Fein)
 * 20) -The "concept of genocide applies //only// when there is an actualized intent, however successfully carried out, to physically destroy an //entire// group (as such a group is defined by the perpetrators)." (Steven T. Katz )
 * 1) -The "concept of genocide applies //only// when there is an actualized intent, however successfully carried out, to physically destroy an //entire// group (as such a group is defined by the perpetrators)." (Steven T. Katz )