Genocide

Nicola Palmer

Genocide

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Abstract

In international law, genocide consists of a series of designated acts committed 'with the intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial, or religious group, as such'. While the practices of the Nazi regime provided the basis for developing the concept, it is necessary to resist the temptation to elevate the Holocaust to the status of the singular archetype of genocide. First, debates on the boundaries of the protected group, and second, debates on the establishment of specific genocidal intent shed light on how the law has struggled to capture the longer temporal frames in which genocides have and continue to occur. It was the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda that first applied the Genocide Convention's definition to a social phenomenon the deliberate targeting and attempted extermination of Tutsi civilians in Rwanda from April to July 1994.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	The Routledge Handbook of Law and Society
Editors	Mariana Valverde, Kamari M. Clarke, Eve Darian Smith, Prabha Kotiswaran
Publisher	Routledge
Chapter	27
Pages	142
Number of pages	4
ISBN (Electronic)	9780429293306
Publication status	Published - 2021

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