U.N. Definition of Genocide Est. December 1948 Genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such: (a) Killing members of the group; (b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; (c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; (d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; (e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.
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U.N. Definition of GenocideEst. December 1948
Genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:
(a) Killing members of the group; (b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of
the group; (c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life
calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
(d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
(e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.
Armenia
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History(12:14)
Armenian Genocide 1915
• Victim- Minority Christian Armenians• Persecutor- Majority Muslim Turks• Why? Armenians sided with allies in WWI• Methods? Forced deportation, death march,
railways to camps, starvation, disease, murder• Impact? ~1.5 million dead• Response? Covered by wartime, still denied