Genocide is the partial or total destruction of a human group, committed intentionally. The popular view conceives of genocide as the large-scale killing of individuals, but in scholarly and legal fie
The Holocaust heavily influences the popular understanding of genocide, as mass killing of innocent people based on their ethnic identity.
The Genocide of Serbs in the Independent State of Croatia was described as such in 1945 by Raphael Lemkin and at the Nuremberg trials, and largely matches the definition of the 1948 Genocide Convention.
The expulsion of Germans was one of the instances of state violence that was deliberately written out of the legal definition of genocide.
Rohingya genocide case at the International Court of Justice
World War II, or the Second World War, was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies and the Axis powers. Nearly all of the world's countries participated, with many engaging in total war o
Genocide
…off course and required both the "weapons and infrastructure of the modern state and the radical ambitions of the modern man." After the horrors of World War II, the United Nations attempted to proscribe genocide via the Genocide Convention. Despite the promise of "never again" and the international effort to…
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