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Völkermord

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'''{{FULLPAGENAME}}''' is the deliberate and systematic extermination of a national, racial, political, or cultural group.<ref>{{REFweb
|url=https://www.thefreedictionary.com/Genocide
|title=Genocide
|publisher=The Free Dictionary by Farlex
|date=2016
|accessdate=2022-11-10
}}</ref>

==Genocide Convention==
After the abuses of World War II, the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted the ''Genocide Convention'' on 9 December 1948 by Resolution 260A (III).<ref name="genocide1948">{{REFdocument|title=Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide
|url=https://www.ohchr.org/en/instruments-mechanisms/instruments/convention-prevention-and-punishment-crime-genocide
|contribution=
|last=
|first=
|publisher=United Nations
|format=
|date=1948-12-09
|accessdate=2022-11-10
}}</ref> The Convention defines genocide and makes it a crime.

Article II of the Convention defines genocide as:

<blockquote>
In the present Convention, genocide means 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) {{Highlighting|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 of the group to another group.<ref name="genocide1948" />
</blockquote>

==International Criminal Court==
The [[International Criminal Court]], which sits at The Hague in the [[Netherlands]], has authority to try persons charged with genocide.

{{SEEALSO}}
* [[Human rights]]

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[[Category:Human rights]]

[[en:Genocide]]

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