Genocide

Easy Definition Genocide is the deliberate and systematic destruction of an ethnic, racial, religious or national group.

However… Definition of genocide varies among scholars A legal definition was defined by the UN in 1948 at the ‘United Nations convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide.’

Article 2 of the UN definition says… "any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such: killing members of the 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; [and] forcibly transferring children of the group to another group."

ACTS (remember: any are considered genocide)… Genocide is ANY of the following acts that were/are committed in order to harm a national, ethnical, racial OR religious group. It is SYSTEMATIC! ACTS (remember: any are considered genocide)… killing members of the group causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group inflicting on the group conditions that would deliberately bring about destruction to them imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group forcibly transferring children of the group to another group

Germany’s Nazi Regime (WWII) Jews: up to 6 million Soviet civilians: around 7 million (1.3 Soviet Jewish civilians) Soviet POW: around 3 million (including about 50,000 Jewish soldiers) Non-Jewish Polish civilians: around 1.8 Serb civilians: 312,000 People with disabilities living in institutions: up to 250,000 Roma (Gypsies): 196,000–220,000 Jehovah's Witnesses: around 1,900 Repeat criminal offenders and so-called asocial: at least 70,000 German political opponents and resistance activists in Axis-occupied territory: undetermined Homosexuals: hundreds, possibly thousands Germany’s Nazi Regime (WWII)

Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge Regime (1975-1979) Estimated 1.5 to 3 million Cambodians died or were killed by the Khmer Rouge regime

Bosnia-Herzegovina’s “ethnic cleansing” (1990s) 200,000 Serbs (civilians) killed 2 million displaced

Indonesia’s “Communist Purge” (1965-1966) 400,000 to 3 million people killed Predominately communist sympathizers, ethnic Chinese and leftists

Rwanda (1994) 800,000 mainly Tutsi in 100 days

East Timor (1975-1979)

Bangladesh (1971)

Burundi (1972)

Kosovo (1999)

Other Genocides Nanking Tibet Burma Argentina El Salvador