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The General Assembly shall decide upon the steps, if any, to be taken in respect of such request. A certified copy of the Convention shall be transmitted to each Member of the United Nations and to each of the non-member States contemplated in article XI. When I first saw posters for this event I was immediately intrigued by such a topic. Waller took the podium, the theater was full with no standing room left. He immediately began talking about the history of genocide and mass killings.
Included in this portion of the lecture was a shocking statistic — in the 20 th century alone, it is estimated that 60 million people lost their lives due to genocides or mass killings. Waller believes that is a conservative number. Waller, referring to the Holocaust, asked the room.
There was silence. No one, not even Dr. We focus on the victims, not the perpetrators, except when speaking of the evil that was done by them. When leaders give eliminationist orders, why do people implement them? Why do the killers kill? Why do they slaughter children? Why do they treat their victims in all their dehumanizing and violent ways? Why do they do what they do? This question is critical and unavoidable, even if it is typically ignored and unmentioned. In , the US, Canadian and Dutch governments all formerly accused China of committing a genocide against the Uighur people in Xinjiang, while several other countries brought parliamentary resolutions making the same accusation.
Evidence suggests China has subjected the Uighurs to forced sterilisation , forced labour , mass detention , and systematic rape and torture - actions which many say meet the criteria of a genocide. China denies the charges. The first case to put into practice the convention on genocide was that of Jean Paul Akayesu, the Hutu mayor of the Rwandan town of Taba at the time of the killings. In a landmark ruling, a special international tribunal convicted Akayesu of genocide and crimes against humanity on 2 September More than 85 people were subsequently convicted by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, 29 on counts of genocide.
In August , a leaked UN report alleged that Rwandan Hutus, perpetrators of the genocide, may themselves have been victims of the same crime. Krstic appealed against his conviction, arguing that the 8, people killed constituted "too insignificant" a number to be a genocide.
In the ICTY rejected his appeal. And in , Nuon Chea, 92, and Khieu Samphan, 87, were both sentenced to life imprisonment for genocide and crimes against humanity for their roles in the Khmer Rouge killings. Congo killings 'may be genocide'. Bosnian Serb cleared of genocide. Image source, AFP. Some have argued that the only genocide was the Nazi Holocaust.
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