genocide

(bka:genocide) & (bka:soykırım)

genocide is the deliberate and systematic destruction, in whole or in part, of an ethnic, racial, religious, or national group. while a precise definition varies among genocide scholars, a legal definition is found in the 1948 united nations convention on the prevention and punishment of the crime of genocide (cppcg). article 2 of this convention defines genocide 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: killing members of the group; causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life, calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; imposing measures intended to prevent births.

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