United Nations
Definition of Genocide

The Transatlantic
Slave Trade

Genocide of the
Native Americans

The Herero
Genocide

The Armenian
Genocide

The Ukrainian Genocide/
The Great Famine

Rape
of Nanking

The
Holocaust

Mao Tse-tung's
Cultural Revolution

The Killing Fields: The
Cambodian Genocide

Genocide in Bosnia
and Herzegovina

The Rwandan
Genocide

The Genocide
in Darfur

 

 

 


The International Convention of the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide on December 9, 1948 set the United Nations definition of genocide

General Assembly Resolution 260A (III) Article 2

 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) 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

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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