Genocide Essay

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Genocide is the intentional killing of groups with the purpose of eliminating the existence of the group. The term "genocide" was created in 1944 to describe the systematic elimination of Jews under the Nazi regime. The word combines the Greek suffix, "geno-", meaning race, and "-cide", meaning "killing". According to Article II of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide, genocide refers to the following acts that are meant to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group by causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group (directly or through actions causing death), 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 (e.g. forced sterilization), or forcibly transferring children (persons under the age of 14 years) of the group to another group. Article III of the convention defines "genocide, the conspiracy to commit genocide, direct and public incitement to commit genocide, attempt to commit genocide, and complicity in genocide" as punishable acts. The United Nations General Assembly adopted the he Genocide Convention on 9 December 1948, and the Convention was commenced on 12 January 1951. The Genocide Convention has been ratified by over 130 nations and over 70 nations have made provisions for the punishment of genocide in domestic criminal law. Article 6 of the 1998 Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court includes the content of Article II of the Genocide Convention as a crime. (http://www.genocidewatch.org/genocide/whatisit.html)

Ten Stages of Genocide
Classification is the first stage of genocide. While ...

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Effects of the Khmer Rouge in Contemporary Times
Many people were orphaned, widowed, or severely traumatized by the actions of the Rouge, and thousands of left Cambodia as refugees. Much poverty today in Cambodia can be traced to the Khmer Rouge, and much potential was lost in Cambodia after intellectuals, scientists, and other educated people that could have helped rebuild the country were killed during the genocide. Mines that were laid by the Khmer Rouge have resulted in numerous injuries and deaths. Although a Khmer Rouge Tribunal had been called for as early as 1994, the trials only began in the summer of 2007. In 2010, Kaing Guek Eav (known as Brother Duch), the head of the infamous S-21 prison camp, was sentenced to 35 years in prison for crimes against humanity. In 2013, Nuon Chea ("Brother Number Two") was put on trial.

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