Genocide is the systematic extermination of a group of people on the basis of a defining characteristic.

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Genocide is the systematic extermination of a group of people on the basis of a defining characteristic.

After World War II and the Holocaust in which 6 million Jews were systematically murdered in concentration camps by the Nazis, the international community decided that this should never happen again. They adopted the Genocide Convention in 1948 which gives a legal definition of genocide and which obligates the countries that sign the treaty to intervene to stop genocide when it is occurring. Genocide is an international crime!

Legal definition of genocide as defined by the Genocide Convention “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; Creating living conditions of the group with the intent to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group” ~ Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, Article 2

Examples of Genocide in the 20 th Century Bosnia (Europe) Germany (Europe) Armenia (Asia) Cambodia (Asia) Rwanda (Africa) Australia (Australia) Today genocide continues in: Sudan (Africa) & Chechnya (Russia)

Nearly one million innocent people were systematically slaughtered in a period of just under 100 days in Rwanda. Capital city = Kigali (setting of Hotel Rwanda)

 Rwanda is a small country in central Africa.  It is the most densely populated country in Africa.  It is populated by two major ethnic groups: the Hutus and the Tutsis.  In 1994, after a long process of planning and preparation, the Hutu majority launched an intense period of systematic killings of friends, neighbors and schoolmates, murdering mostly Tutsis and some moderate Hutus.  In less than one hundred days, nearly one million people were killed. That is nearly twice the entire population of Washington, DC.

This slaughter was not by bomb or machine guns but by garden tools, kitchen knives, and machetes.