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Turkey has to face its crime against humanity.
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Word 'Genocide'
From the Greek word génos (γένος) (family, tribe or race - gene).
And from Latin worde -cide (occido—to massacre, kill).
The term "genocide" was coined in 1943 by a Polish-Jewish legal scholar 'Raphael Lemkin'.
In Noah 1933, Lemkin prepared an essay entitled the Crime of Barbarity in which genocide was portrayed as a crime against international law. The concept of the crime, which later evolved into the idea of genocide, originated with the experience of the Assyrians, massacred in Iraq on 11 August 1933.
To Lemkin, the event in Iraq evoked "memories of the slaughter of Armenians" during World War I.
He presented his first proposal to outlaw such "acts of barbarism" to the Legal Council of the League of Nations in Madrid the same year. The proposal failed, and his work incurred the disapproval of the Polish government, which was at the time pursuing a policy of conciliation with Nazi Germany.
In 1944,the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace published Lemkin's most important work, entitled 'Axis Rule in Occupied Europe', in the United States. This book included an extensive legal analysis of German rule in countries occupied by Nazi Germany during the course of World War II, along with the definition of the term genocide.
Lemkin's idea of genocide as an offense against international law was widely accepted by the international community and was one of the legal bases of the Nuremberg Trials (the indictment of the 24 Nazi leaders specifies in Count 3 that the defendants "conducted deliberate and systematic genocide—namely, the extermination of racial and national groups...") Lemkin presented a draft resolution for a Genocide Convention treaty to a number of countries in an effort to persuade them to sponsor the resolution.
With the support of the United States, the resolution was placed before the General Assembly for consideration.
The definition of 'Genocide' as a crime
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In the wake of the Holocaust, Lemkin successfully campaigned for the universal acceptance of international laws defining and forbidding genocide.
This was achieved in 1948, with the promulgation of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.
The CPPCG was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on 9 December 1948 and came into effect on 12 January 1951 (Resolution 260). It contains an internationally-recognized definition of genocide which was incorporated into the national criminal legislation of many countries, and was also adopted by the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, the treaty that established the International Criminal Court (ICC).
The Convention defines genocide:
...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) Killing members of the group;
(b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
(c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
(d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
(e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.
Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, Article II.
Despite, Turkish propagandists denial tactics to point out that 'what happened to the Armenians could be a massacre or a tragedy, but not genocide, simply because the term genocide did not exist back in 1915'.... is rightfully contradicted by Raphael Lemkin himself in this recently discovered half-hour CBS program. (first broadcast in 1949, a rare TV interview with Lemkin on the UN Convention and the Armenian Genocide).
A short segment of that interview shown by documentary filmmaker Andrew Goldberg, Raphael Lemkin explains to the CBS moderator... How his interest in genocide began, saying:
I became interested in genocide because it happened to Armenians.... "
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