The UN Convention on Genocide, agreed in 1948, offers a range of actions (killing, harming, imposing harsh conditions, restricting birth, forcible adoption) which are genocidal if committed with intent to "destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group".As an attempt to ring-fence a particular category of mass annihilation, this presents huge problems.
It is, after all, nation-states which make war, which have produced the weapons which threaten the survival of mankind, and which are both genocidal and suicidal in character.
The prime minister is never required to defend policies which, by the definition of various international conventions, are genocidal.
With the state of Iraq in ruins as a result of US-led regime change, a third of the country is controlled by Isis, which is able to inflict genocidal attacks on Yazidis and wage a campaign of terror on Christians with near-impunity.
Eight days later, M.R.T.A. issued another complaint: "We lament that some political and journalistic personalities insist on labelling us as a terrorist and genocidal band, which is absolutely false, since there are no facts that sustain it".
Several groups have been accused of grievous rights abuses, but the most serious charges rest on the remnants of the Hutu interahamwe militias and former Hutu-led army of Rwanda, which were involved in the 1994 genocidal campaigns against Tutsi and their supporters.
You support free birth control and abortion, which is denounced in some quarters as genocidal.
The ex-spy claims that intelligence officers were invited into Guatemala to dine with the military regime, including the officers from the notorious Kaibiles special-forces unit, which is believed to have murdered Pedro Barrera and carried out genocidal massacres.
The direct consequences of genocidal violence such as HIV infection, chronic pain or disability, which were especially present in the group of survivors, have an immediate impact on the economic growth of a family in an already poor environment [ 50].
The Jewish festival of Purim, which was celebrated this year from sundown Monday to sundown Tuesday, commemorates salvation from a plot by Haman, a genocidal maniac who tried to annihilate the Jews of ancient Persia.
For most, Nazi regalia recalls a regime that was genocidal and antisemitic, which doesn't put a lot of people in the party mood, not least because antisemitism remains rife.
