Sentence examples for justification for genocide from inspiring English sources
There can never be justification for genocide.
In carrying out the greatest genocide in history, the Nazis created a legacy for later practitioners of mass atrocities by crafting a justification for genocide: self-defense.
Sergey Markov, a political analyst and a Kremlin loyalist who has held several official positions, called it "an ideological justification for a genocide of the Russian people" and said that Zvyagintsev himself should block the release of his film in Russia and instead kneel in the Red Square and apologize to his compatriots.
That discussion is eerily similar to the post-war refutation of the Nazi's claim of "Jewish responsibility" for the ills of European society as their "justification" for the genocide.
Nazism is quite different, particularly in its inherently racist ideology and justification of genocide.
Similarly, faced with passages in which God orders genocide (e.g. Deut 20 16-18) the rabbis proclaimed that such passages cannot be used as a precedent or justification for any subsequent genocide.
Other Information on the Web: Read the PBS Ombudsman Column on "The Armenian Genocide" (//www.pbs.org/ombudsman/2006/03/coming_soon_to_viewers_like_you_the_armenian.html), which presents the Public Broadcasting System's justification for including those who argue against the Armenian genocide, as well as a statement by one of the panel participants.
ALEX KOPPELMAN: Romney promises to indict Ahmadinejad for genocide.
Human-rights groups want him prosecuted for genocide.
Finally, the Chamber found that there was sufficient evidence to hold that Milošević aided and abetted genocide or was responsible for genocide through the doctrine of superior responsibility (Prosecutor v. Milošević 16 June 2004, para. 323(4)–(5)).
