What is genocideLast updated Nov 18, 2022<p><a href=/Genocide/ rel=noopener class=internal-link data-src=/Genocide/>Genocide</a> is by many people associated with mass killings, but the term has a much broader meaning.</p><blockquote><p><strong>Article II</strong> 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: (a) <strong>Killing</strong> members of the group; (b) Causing <strong>serious bodily or mental harm</strong> to members of the group; (c) Deliberately inflicting on the group <strong>conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction</strong> in whole or in part; (d) Imposing <strong>measures intended to prevent births</strong> within the group; (e) Forcibly <strong>transferring children</strong> of the group to another group.<sup id=fnref:1><a href=#fn:1 class=footnote-ref role=doc-noteref>1</a></sup></p></blockquote><p>In this sense, genocide needs to be understood as a deliberate attempt to eradicate the existence of a group.</p><p><img src=https://garden.safnine.pw//TWoU%20-%20Ch6%20-%20Cultural%20genocide%2020172020.md width=auto alt="TWoU - Ch6 - Cultural genocide 2017–2020"></p><div class=footnotes role=doc-endnotes><hr><ol><li id=fn:1><p>Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide: <a href=https://perma.cc/S356-TZQJ target=_blank rel="noopener noreferrer">https://perma.cc/S356-TZQJ</a> <a href=#fnref:1 class=footnote-backref role=doc-backlink>↩︎</a></p></li></ol></div></article><hr><div class=page-end id=footer><div class=backlinks-container><h3>Backlinks</h3><ul class=backlinks><li><a href=/Cultural-Genocide-in-Xinjiang-China/ data-ctx="What is genocide" data-src=/Cultural-Genocide-in-Xinjiang-China class=internal-link>Cultural Genocide in Xinjiang, China</a></li></ul></div><div><script src=https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/d3@6.7.0/dist/d3.min.js integrity="sha256-+7jaYCp29O1JusNWHaYtgUn6EhuP0VaFuswhNV06MyI=" crossorigin=anonymous></script><h3>Interactive Graph</h3><div id=graph-container></div><style>:root{--g-node:var(--secondary);--g-node-active:var(--primary);--g-node-inactive:var(--visited);--g-link:var(--outlinegray);--g-link-active:#5a7282}</style><script src=https://garden.safnine.pw/js/graph.aa38e19459b1a0e92a66c3cfbc3cd00d.js></script></div></div><div id=contact_buttons><footer><p></p><ul><li><a href=https://garden.safnine.pw/>Home</a></li></ul></footer></div></div></body></html>