mandag 20. april 2015

Genocides, does it ever end.

Why the Armenian genocide is so controversial and unclear, is because of how we define a genocide. Currently there are many scholars that define a genocide differently, but the fundamentals criteria are. 
1 Removing an ethnic group
2 Removing a religious group

And therefore, we can say that a genocide is denying a group rights to exist.

Here are some widely recognized definitions of a genocide, and yes the Armenian genocide fulfills it.

Genocide is a form of violent social conflict or war, between armed power organizations that aim to destroy civilian social groups and those groups and other actors who resist this destruction. Genocidal action is action in which armed power organizations treat civilian social groups as enemies and aim to destroy their real or putative social power, by means of killing, violence and coercion against individuals whom they regard as members of the groups.[31]            
                                                                                                                          -Martin Shaw

Article 6 of the Rome Statute provides that ‘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) 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.
                                                                  -Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court

Article 2 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) 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.
                                                                                -UN General Assembly 260A (III) Article II


Make peace, not war

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