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 What is Genocide?

Testimonies of Survivors and Eyewitnesses: "A death march was: anybody who couldn't walk, stayed back and they shot him. No question. I had two friends who fell back. I told them, Don't go to the back. Stay in the front. That's the best way. I was holding them up and carrying them for a long time." Links to the testimonies of individual genocide survivors

The word "genocide" translated or defined in 80 languages

 The definition of genocide in international law Elements of the Crime of Genocide agreed upon by the ICC Preparatory Commission at its fifth session, New York, 12-30 June 2000 Five alternative definitions of genocide from Chalk & Jonassohn, Israel Charny, Helen Fein, Harff & Gurr and Steven Katz

'A crime without a name': Winston Churchill, Raphael Lemkin and the World War II origins of the word 'genocide'.

'Key Writings of Raphael Lemkin on Genocide - a guide to a multilingual series of texts by the activist scholar who coined the word "genocide" New Text: 'Genocide as a Crime under International Law'

Raphael Lemkin (1900-1959)

"Ethnic Cleansing and International Law" Read Drazen Petrovic's 1994 discussion of the orgins of the term "Ethnic Cleaning" (etnicko ciscenje) which entered the international vocaulbary in 1992 and the relationship between this term to established internatonal crimes such as genocide. Drazen Petrovic Ethnic Cleansing - An Attempt at Methodology European Journal of International Law www.ejil.org Vol. 5 (1994) No. 3

What makes people mass murderers?: Hear or read a transcript with the comments of Professor Peter du Preez, Cape Town University

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