Genocide

Jurist Raphael Lemkin coined the term genocide in 1944. The term is derived from the Greek “genos” meaning “kind or kin” and the suffix –cide, meaning to kill. Genocide is the systematic attempt to kill an entire population of people based on any number of perceived differences.

On December 9, 1948 the United Nations General Assembly, in light of the events of World War II and Lemkin’s research, adopted the United Nations Genocide Convention (UNGC).

Genocide has increased with frequency since the end of WWII and has included the deaths of millions throughout the world. From the genocide in Darfur to the Armenian genocide, the brutality and wholesale destruction of human life poses a very serious threat to countless people throughout the world.

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “Genocide”

• World Briefing | Africa: Rwanda: U.N. Court Reverses 2008 Genocide Conviction

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 914
  Protais Zigiranyirazo had been sentenced to 20 years for organizing a massacre that left about 1,000 dead during the 1994 genocide.
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• The Ukraine, Famine and Gareth Jones, 29

  
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  The Times – True extent of Ukraine famine revealed in British journalist’s diaries Millions of peasants were starving. Children were turned against adults as they were recruited to expose people accused of hoarding grain. Stalin sealed the border between Russia and Ukraine to ensure that news of the famine ...
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• Peak Stupid is Far Worse than Previously Feared

  
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  Screw the swine flu pandemic, peak stupid is much worse than the Department of Homeland Librarians had let on.According to our nations finest librarians with Homeland, not only have no known Teabaggers ever checked out a book, there appears to be some sort of genetic abnormality involved with said pretend patriots.  ...
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• Glogal Update: Congo’s Army Accused of Striking Villages as Refugees Waited for Measles Shots

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 914
  The medical charity Doctors Without Borders has accused the Congolese Army of attacking the villages of Rwandan refugees as they waited for measles shots offered by the charity.
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• LORRAINE TIPTON CASE Father refuses to see daughter so that mother will remain in jail!

  
  A Human Rights Issue-Custodial Justice — Authority: 512
  http://refusesvisitpressrelease.blogspot.com/ Father Refuses visitation . . .LORRAINE TIPTON CASE Father refuses to see daughter so that mother will remain in jail! PRESS RELEASE Contact: Elizabeth McVey Children’s Rights Albany, New York November 14, 2009 518-505-9200 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Lorraine Tipton was ...
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• Rwanda tribunal clears 1994 genocide suspect

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 167
  The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda on Monday cleared an alleged organiser of the countrys 1994 genocide and overturned a 20-year sentence against him. The Tanzania-based, UN-backed court ordered the immediate release of Protais Zigiranyirazo after acquitting him of genocide charges. Appeals Chamber Judge ...
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• Shawnee County Court LIVES of Battered Mothers and their Children Continue to be Destroyed

  
  A Human Rights Issue-Custodial Justice — Authority: 512
  [I went ahead and hyperlinked for our ease and access to a site I DO NOT have access to. (For this VERY reason) albeit I must have provided much of the info as they are my case….. so be it then. My review to be in compliance (again) of Contempt is the Nov. 20th, 2009  [...]
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• Terrorists Caught on Tape: Top Hizbul Mujahideenl & Lashkar-e-Toiba Terror Commanders Caught on Tape

  
  Ekawaaz - One Voice - Many Issues : News Views and Reviews — Authority: 125
  But I still don’t understand why aren’t our media and more people horrified and enraged over this? Are we waiting for something big to happen again before we take any action against these Bastered?Via Times NowIn what should have security agencies concerned, TIMES NOW has accessed mobile footage of a gathering of ...
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• SIN BY SILENCE | An educational resource on DOMESTIC VIOLENCE; BUT where is the part about how BATTERERS and ABUSERS often get CUSTODY?

  
  A Human Rights Issue-Custodial Justice — Authority: 512
   Looks good — but where is the part about how batterers and abusers often get custody, the years of exhausting and financially back-breaking litigation, the damage to the children, etc?==============================One in four American women will experience domestic violence in her lifetime. October was Domestic ...
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• Volkmann: Die Strafverfolgung des Völkermordes nach dem Weltrechtsprinzip im internationalen Strafrecht und im Völkerstrafrecht

  
  International Law Reporter — Authority: 144
  Caroline Volkmann has published Die Strafverfolgung des Völkermordes nach dem Weltrechtsprinzip im internationalen Strafrecht und im Völkerstrafrecht: Untersucht am Beispiel der deutschen Rechtsordnung (Peter Lang 2009). Heres the abstract: Obwohl der Völkermord als so genannter «core crime» des ...
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• One Giant Scar On Mankind: DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AFFECTS US ALL!

  
  A Human Rights Issue-Custodial Justice — Authority: 512
  One giant scar on mankindhttp://www.smh.com.au/opinion/politics/one-giant-scar-on-mankind-20091115-igau.htmlNovember 17, 2009Comments 105Illustration: Greg Bakes.Almost 20 years ago, on December 6, 1989, a young man went looking for women at l’Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal. Here, in the middle of this highly ...
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• Another Murder-Suicide: Mom Wanted Shared Parenting, Dad Didn’t

  
  A Human Rights Issue-Custodial Justice — Authority: 512
  Another Murder-Suicide: Mom Wanted Shared Parenting, Dad Didn’tFiled under: Child Custody, Child Custody Battle, Child Custody Issues, Child Custody Mediation, Child Custody for mothers, Child custody for fathers, Children and Domestic Violence,Children’s rights, Civil rights, Coparenting, Corrupt bastards, ...
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• COLOMBUS GO HOME!

  
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  THIS IS HILARIOUS. The first clue that the anti-”amnesty” hate train has been derailed is his mention of Smallpox. And yet, even though liberal activist “Robert Erickson” goes on and on to detail why European immigrants, “responsible for Genocide” and countless other crimes and conflict brought upon ...
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• Article Title Unknown

  
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  (1) Whodunnit Somebody spray painted some Jewish property in Calgary, not long after the Nov. 9 anniversary of the Night of Broken Glass . A Jewish spokesperson wonders what could possibly have motivated the timing and the message. Since no actual damage was done beyond sprayed graffiti, and since most of this ...
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• The Mystery of Easter Island

  
  NotionsCapital — Authority: 491
  Everybody knows that the inhabitants of Easter Island (Rapa Nui) have dissappeared. Where did they go? Disneyworld? Abducted by space aliens ? Did the inhabitants de-forest their island and starve themselves out? Maybe after they made those big stone heads ( moai) they got creeped out by them and just split. Or ...
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• Codex Alimentarius - Ian Crane 9 of 9

  
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  big pharmaceutical companies could regulate and sell. Any food with any therapeutic effect can be considered a drug, even benign everyday substances like water. * Codex regulations for dietary supplements would become binding (escape clauses would be eliminated). * All new dietary supplements would be banned unless ...
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• On November 16

  
  IntLawGrrls — Authority: 481
  On this day in ... ... 1989 (20 years ago today) , at the 25th session of its General Conference, UNESCO adopted the Seville Statement on Violence . ( credit for image from 2003 UNESCO conference discussing Statement) Produced by a global consortium of scientists meeting in 1986 in Spain, the Statement ...
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• 15.11.09(information) for Karen

  
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• Rwanda: a nation rising from the ashes

  
  Family: News and advice on family matters children and parents — Authority: 975
  Cassandra Jardine visits Rwanda to discover how your generosity is helping to build a future for the children of the genocide.
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• Books: The translator

  
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    The book The Translator is the real story of Dahoud Hari, a man from Sudan who worked as a translator for journalists traveling to Darfur. He writes a bit about his family, his country but most about the genocide in Darfur and the dangerous work of a traveling translator for reporters who ...
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