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The accusation of genocide — defined in international law as an attempt to destroy a national, ethnic, racial or religious group, in whole or in part — has outraged Israelis, who have told the ...
The Problems of Genocide: Permanent Security and the Language of Transgression is a 2021 book by Australian historian A. Dirk Moses. The book explores what Moses sees as flaws in the concept of genocide, which he argues allows killings of civilians that do not resemble the Holocaust to be ignored. Moses proposes "permanent security" as an ...
The Genocide Convention establishes five prohibited acts that, when committed with the requisite intent, amount to genocide. Genocide is not just defined as wide scale massacre-style killings that are visible and well-documented. International law recognizes a broad range of forms of violence in which the crime of genocide can be enacted. [3]
Genocide is violence that targets individuals because of their membership of a group and aims at the destruction of a people. [a] [1] [dubious – discuss] Raphael Lemkin, who first coined the term, defined genocide as "the destruction of a nation or of an ethnic group" by means such as "the disintegration of [its] political and social institutions, of [its] culture, language, national ...
The 1948 Genocide Convention, enacted in the wake of the mass murder of Jews in the Nazi Holocaust, defines genocide as "acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national ...
Last month, Amnesty International released a 296-page report concluding that Israel has been committing genocide “brazenly, continuously and with total impunity” — with the “specific ...
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Sunday flatly said, "This is genocide," after officials from his government presented evidence of civilian executions and other atrocities allegedly being ...
Rossoliński-Liebe sees "genocide", in this context, as a word that is sometimes used in political attacks on Ukraine. [221] However, historian Grzegorz Motyka, an expert on Polish-Ukrainian issues, argued in 2021 that "although the anti-Polish action was an ethnic cleansing, it also meets the definition of genocide". [222]