What is Genocide?

 

On January 12th, 1951, the United Nations entered into force the December 11th, 1946 declaration of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.  This Convention states that genocide is a crime under international law.

In Article 2, genocide is defined as: 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 on the group to another
group.