When is a Genocide a Genocide?
Posted on | January 31, 2005 |
More proof the UN is an anemic useless bunch.
A genocide has not been committed in Darfur, a keenly awaited United Nations report says, according to Sudan’s foreign minister.If genocide was found to have taken place, signatories to a UN convention are legally obliged to act to end it.
More than 70,000 people have been killed and two million forced to flee their homes in Darfur.
Let’s take a look at how the UN defines genocide. According to the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide 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:
- 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 within the group;
- Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.
Seems fairly straightforward to me but so far the only country with the courage to refer to this as a genocide is the US.
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