Expanding the Crime of Genocide to Include Ethnic Cleansing

A policy of ethnic cleansing is a genocidal policy. Part II of this Comment reviews the legislative history of the Genocide Convention to provide a ...

Ultimately, the policy underlying genocidal intent justifies preserving genocide as a separate offense. A. The Formation of the Crime of Genocide. Although the ...

In the Shadow of Genocide: Ethnocide, Ethnic Cleansing, and ...

Abstract. Internationally regarded as “the crime of crimes” in both legal and moral terms, the concept of genocide has towered over discussions of ethnic c.

DOES THE INTERNATIONAL CRIME OF GENOCIDE ALWAYS ...

DOES THE INTERNATIONAL CRIME OF GENOCIDE. ALWAYS REQUIRE A GENOCIDAL POLICY? Elizabeth Plajzer*. The term 'genocidal policy' suggests the idea of an ...

Ethnic cleansing isn't a crime. Should it be? - The New Humanitarian

Only in cases that meet those criteria do you have the conditions of genocide. What's extremely difficult with genocide is, first, to define ...

Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing - Oxford Research Encyclopedias

The legal definition of genocide classifies forced movement with the intent to destroy as a genocidal act, even though the law has not been used ...

Ethnic cleansing | War Crimes & Genocide Prevention | Britannica

The significant difference between the two remains, however: whereas ethnic cleansing aims to force the flight of a particular group, genocide ...

Ethnic Cleansing or Genocide? Either Way, the World Must Act to ...

For a crime or set of crimes to constitute genocide, it must be proven that the genocidal actors (1) committed one or more of the above acts, (2) ...

Ethnic Cleansing as Euphemism, Metaphor, Criminology and Law

Scheffer, Genocide and Atrocity Crimes , 1 Genocide Stud. & Prevention 229, 229. (2006 ). Such precursors might include, for example, the forced migration and ...

Cultural Homogenization, Ethnic Cleansing, and Genocide

Sometimes, past genocides have been used to justify retributive or “preemptive” genocidal responses. Serbian accounts of the Jasenovac concentration camps in ...

Ethnic Cleansing in Ethiopia - jstor

Gellately and Kiernan, "The Study of Mass Murder." 22. Elazar Barkan, "Genocides of Indigenous Peoples: Rhetoric of Human. Rights," in The Specter of Genocide ...

Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of ...

As history has shown, this difficulty would be addressed not by expanding the definition of genocide or by amending the Convention, but rather by an evolution ...

Evolving Interpretations of the Crime of Genocide

As for those who participate in the crime of genocide, prosecutors need not establish that they actually had a genocidal intent, as long as they were in some ...

“Ethnic Cleansing” and Genocidal Intent: A Failure of Judicial ...

This article analyzes the similarities and distinctions between “ethnic cleansing” and genocide in the context of both Bosnia's and Croatia's genocide ...

Genocide Treaty - Ethnic Cleansing

cleansing" which would be a crime under the Genocide Convention which is binding on ... uals alleged to have committed acts of genocide whether they be ...

You're on Native Land: The Genocide Convention, Cultural ...

While killings of Indigenous peoples have thus frequently been considered to fall within the bounds of the Genocide Convention, crimes against culture—like the ...

The Difference Between Ethnic Cleansing and Genocide

The United Nations (U.N.) first termed 'genocide' in the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, while 'ethnic ...

“with intent to destroy, in whole or in part”: genocide, ethnic ...

... crimes of genocide have occurred when racial, ... Charter, to help to protect populations from genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes ...

War Crimes, Crimes Against Humanity, and Ethnic Cleansing ...

In haunting echoes of the genocide that began almost 20 years ago in Darfur, we have seen an explosion of targeted violence against some of ...

genocide and ethnic cleansing: why the distinction? a discussion in ...

national crimes, 03 and the crime of genocide includes the duty to pre- vent ... Rwanda to the International Criminal Court: Expanding the Definition of Genocide ...