| Background Genocide, defined by �The Convention of the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide�, adopted in 1948, is when �any of the following acts are committed with the intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, such as: a) killing member of a 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.� (Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, www.tufts.edu/departments/fletcher/multi/texts/BH225.txt ) With such an immoral and dismal definition, the actual actions of this must be unlivable. Yet throughout history, thousands of people have died or suffered because of intolerance that others have of their race, religion, ethnicity or nationality. We have come so far with breakthroughs in technology, in peace making, in increasing the life span of humans and increasing the standard of living for many people. Genocide erases everything that humans have worked for. Throughout history, the acts of genocide represent everything the human race has tried to fight against and to rid itself of- intolerance, hatred, violence and death. People, of whom the actions and ramifications of genocide do not affect, act as though there is nothing they did or could do to prevent it. But genocide is the consequence of not only hatred and power run amok but of a world that lacks the will to prevent it. Link to Current Status |