Genocide

Genocide involves the calculated targeting and systemic killing of a specific ethnic, religious, or racial group, carried out as a consequence of government policy. The word "genocide" was coined by Rafael Lemkin in his 1944 book Axis Rule in Occupied Europe to describe the mass killings of European Jews by the National Socialist regime.

The term applies mostly to mass killings since the beginning of the 20th century, although throughout history there have been many cases of bloodshed like this. Even in the Bible, there was the Israelite conquest of Canaan, where God instructed them "...do not leave alive anything that breathes. Completely destroy them...as the Lord your God has commanded you..." (Deuteronomy 20:16).

20th and 21st century genocides[edit]

Major 20th and 21st century examples include:

• Communist regimes killed 60 million in the 20th century through mass murder, according to Le Monde, more than 100 million people^[1] according to The Black Book of Communism (Panné, J.L., Paczkowski A. et al., 1999).^[2] and according to Cleon Skousen^[3] in his best-selling book The Naked Communist.^[4]

• Abortion, which has killed over 60 million unborn humans since 1973 (see: Abortion genocide)

• 1904–1908: The Herero-Nama genocide^[5]

• 1916–1917: The Ottoman and Turkish genocide of the Armenians (Armenian Genocide)

• 1932–1933: The Soviet genocide of the Ukrainians (Holodomor)

• 1943-1944: The 1943 Bengal Famine perpetrated by the British

• 1939–1945: The Nazi Holocaust

• 1946: Noakhali Genocide;over 5,000 Hindus killed and hundreds of thousands forcibly converted to Islam

• 1948-present: The Pakistani Army torturing, raping and murdering thousands of Baloch people.

• 1959–Present: The Chinese Communists killing massive numbers of Tibetans in Tibet

• 1975–1978: The Killing Fields in Cambodia by the Khmer Rouge

• 1986–1989: Saddam Hussein's Anfal campaign against the Kurds in Northern Iraq

• 1991: Serbian massacre of Bosnian Muslims under Slobodan Milosevic

• 1995: Hutu genocide of the Tutsi population in Rwanda^[6]

• Some observers have argued that the unusually high murder rate of white South African farmers is an example of genocide^[7]

• ISIS has systemically targeted Christians for genocide in the Middle East.

• 2016-present: Genocide of Uighurs by the Chinese Communists

International conventions[edit]

In 1948, The United Nations Genocide Convention defined "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, ethnic, racial or religious group, as such:

1. Killing members of the group;
2. Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
3. Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
4. Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
5. Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.

Article 3 The following acts shall be punishable:

1. Genocide;
2. Conspiracy to commit genocide;
3. Direct and public incitement to commit genocide;
4. Attempt to commit genocide;
5. Complicity in genocide.

The first ever conviction for the crime of genocide was handed down by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia in the case of Radislav Krstc, a Bosnian Serb general who commanded the forces that killed over 7500 Muslim men and boys at Srebenica.^[8]

Darfur and the United Nations[edit]

Despite this lip service the United Nations has failed to recognize the events in the Darfur region of Sudan as genocide. Amnesty International, and the African Union likewise only acknowledge the "tragedy" in Darfur but refuse to characterize the situation as genocide. Médecins sans Frontières (Doctors without Borders) director Jean-Hervé Bradol called the term genocide "inappropriate" and its deputy emergency director Dr. Mercedes Taty said, "I don't think that we should be using the word 'genocide' to describe this conflict."^[9]

The European Union and the United States government both officially recognize Darfur as genocide. A UN commission called it "crimes against humanity".^[10]

On a related note, there has been a campaign to get the Vendee massacre to be recognized as a genocide.

See also[edit]

• Atheism and mass murder
• French Revolution and Reign of Terror
• Terrorism
• Holocaust: Concentration camps and Extermination camps
• Big government Welfare state leads to socialist Nanny state, leads to communist Police state - Don't think Communism is incompatible with Islam in this respect.
• Gun control - key element to create a police state with mass murder, genocide and firing squads.
• Tibet
• Fourth generation warfare
• Anti-Americanism (for American Indian Genocide)

Further reading[edit]

• Carmichael, Cathie. Genocide Before the Holocaust (2009)
• Charny, Israel W. ed. Encyclopedia of Genocide (2 vol. 1999)
• Shelton, Dinah, ed. Encyclopedia of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity (3 vol. 2004)

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