Title: Genocide - Wikipedia
Headings: Genocide
Genocide
Contents
Etymology
Crime
Pre-criminalization view
International law
Intent
"Intent to destroy"
"In whole or in part"
"A national, ethnic, racial or religious group"
Acts
Killing members of the group
Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group Article II (b)
Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction
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
UN Security Council Resolution 1674
Municipal law
Criticisms of definitions
International prosecution
By ad hoc tribunals
Nuremberg Tribunal (1945–1946)
International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (1993–2017)
International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (1994 to present)
Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (2003 to present)
By the International Criminal Court
Darfur, Sudan
Examples
Stages, risk factors, and prevention
See also
Research
References
Further reading
Articles
Books
External links
Documents
Research institutes, advocacy groups, and other organizations

Content: He kills them and this is his business. If you interfere, you are trespassing." As late as 1959, many world leaders still "believed states had a right to commit genocide against people within their borders", according to political scientist Douglas Irvin-Erickson. International law
Members of the Sonderkommando burn corpses of Jews in pits at Auschwitz II-Birkenau, an extermination camp
After the Holocaust, which had been perpetrated by Nazi Germany prior to and during World War II, Lemkin successfully campaigned for the universal acceptance of international laws defining and forbidding genocides. In 1946, the first session of the United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution that affirmed genocide was a crime under international law and enumerated examples of such events (but did not provide a full legal definition of the crime). In 1948, the UN General Assembly adopted the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (CPPCG) which defined the crime of genocide for the first time. Genocide is a denial of the right of existence of entire human groups, as homicide is the denial of the right to live of individual human beings; such denial of the right of existence shocks the conscience of mankind, results in great losses to humanity in the form of cultural and other contributions represented by these human groups, and is contrary to moral law and the spirit and aims of the United Nations. Many instances of such crimes of genocide have occurred when racial, religious, political and other groups have been destroyed, entirely or in part. — UN Resolution 96 (1), 11 December 1946
The CPPCG was adopted by the