Genocide II

["James Michael Craven" <CRAVJM@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

        4. The Lebanese delegate to the Draft Convention on
           Punishment and Prevention of the Crime of Genocide
           in 1947 noted that what is at issue is the "destruction
           of a [recognizably distinct] human group, even though
           the individual members survive."
           (UN Doc. E/A.C. 25/S.R. 1-28)

        5. the initial UN Draft Convention on genocide focused not
           only on mass killing but also upon actions and policies
           which brought about the "disintegration of the political,
           social or economic structure of a group or nation" and
           the "systematic moral debasement of a group."
           (Report of the United Nations Economic and Social Council
           1947, 6th part: quoted in Robert Davis and Mark Zannis,
           "The Genocide Machine in Canada: The Pacification of the
           North (Montreal, Black Rose Books, 1973, p. 19 and in
           Churchill, Ibid. pp 13-14)

         6.  In the subsequent Draft Convention produced by the
            UN Secretariat in 1948, genocide was deinjed in a
            two-fold way, as "destruction of a group" and as
            "preventing its preservation and development."
            (U.N. Doc A/36, 1948)

         7.  Article II of the U.N.'s 1948 Convention on Punishment
             and Prevention of the Crime of Genocide (UN GOAR Res.
             260A (III) 9 Dec. 1948; effective January 1951)
             specifies five categories of activity to be genocidal
             when directed against national, ethnic, racial or
             religious groups:

             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 calculating to bring about its physical
                destruction in whole or in part;
             d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within
                the group;
             e) Forcibly transfering children of the group to
                another group;

                                    to be continued...

                                    Jim Craven

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