Definition of Genocide

Genocide in International Law; the intentional and systematic destruction, wholly or in part, by a government of a national, racial, religious, or ethnic group.

The information provided here is an effort to combine timely and historical fact on the subject of Genocide, World Crime and History which should help in the under-standing of man's in-humanity against fellow man; Justice; and rightful retribution.

No country or no people can afford to be spectators in the arena of security when it is clear that every generation has produced monsters among us who seek mass murder to achieve their selfish means. Sometimes; the only way to stop the mass murders has been war; and as in the case of the dropping of the Atomic Bombs in Japan during World War II; it is always many innocents who pay the price for their evil governments.

Had the Atomic Bombs not been dropped many other millions of innocents would have died...Japan's war caused the deaths of at least 55,000,000 people.

The people of Nagisaki and Hiroshima paid for the sins of Japanese Leadership with their lives. And Japan's culpability is but one example of how evil man can become - And points out what levels good men must take to stop them.

Had Japan been stopped early on in its power-building; it is certain many many many millions of people would not have been killed. The same can easily be said for all evil empires.

Everything you read here can and most likely will be repeated in every generation ahead of US. Mankinds greatest weapons are education and intelligence. Our biggest enemies are ignorance and complacency - Bob Price

The term genocide was first coined in 1944, but the crime itself has been committed often in history. It was initially used to describe the systematic campaign for the extermination of peoples carried on by Nazi Germany, in its attempts in the 1930s and 40s to destroy the entire European Jewish community, and to eliminate other national groups in Eastern Europe.

In 1945, the charter of the Nuremberg Tribunal listed persecution on racial or religious grounds as a crime for which the victorious Allies would try Nazi offenders. It established the principle of the individual accountability of government officials who carried out the extermination policies.

The United Nations, by a convention concluded in 1949, defined in detail the crime of genocide and provided for its punishment by competent national courts of the state on whose territory the crime was committed, or by international tribunal. Charging that the convention violated national sovereignty, especially in its provision for an international tribunal and in the potential liability of an individual citizen, the United States did not ratify it until 37 years later, in 1986. An international tribunal was established to prosecute genocide cases in the aftermath of the slaughter of more than 500,000 Tutsis in Rwanda in 1994.

In 1995 top civilian and military Bosnian Serb and Bosnian Croat leaders were charged by an international tribunal with genocide in the killing of thousands of Muslims during the breakup of the former Yugoslavia.

"It is the common fate of the indolent (lazy or unconcerned) to see their rights become a prey to the active. The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition if he break, servitude is at once the consequence of his crime and the punishment of his guilt."

Persons in Time of War requires the parties to enact legislation to provide effective penal sanctions for those committing or ordering to commit "grave breaches" of the Convention; and to search for such persons and to bring them to trial. Article 147 states that grave breaches are the following acts committed against protected persons and property:

"...willful killing, torture or inhumane treatment, including biological experiments, willfully causing great suffering or serious injury to body or health, unlawful deportation or transfer or unlawful confinement of a protected person, compelling a protected person to serve in forces of a hostile Power, or willfully depriving a protected person of the rights of fair and regular trial prescribed in the present Convention, taking of hostages and extensive destruction and appropriation of property, not justified by military necessity and carried out unlawfully and wantonly..."

The World and in particular Europe and the Middle East have Freedom today thanks to the Allied Commitment and Support during WWII.

"The enemy of America is not our many Muslim friends. It is not our many Arab friends. Our enemy is a radical network of terrorists and every government that supports them.

They hate what they see right here in this chamber: a democratically elected government. Their leaders are self-appointed. They hate our freedoms: our freedom of religion, our freedom of speech, our freedom to vote and assemble and disagree with each other.

They want to overthrow existing governments in many Muslim countries such as Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Jordan. They want to drive Israel out of the Middle East. They want to drive Christians and Jews out of vast regions of Asia and Africa.

These terrorists kill not merely to end lives, but to disrupt and end a way of life. With every atrocity, they hope that America grows fearful, retreating from the world and forsaking our friends. They stand against us because we stand in their way. We're not deceived by their pretenses to piety.

We have seen their kind before. They're the heirs of all the murderous ideologies of the 20th century. By sacrificing human life to serve their radical visions, by abandoning every value except the will to power, they follow in the path of Fascism, Nazism and Totalitarianism. And they will follow that path all the way to where it ends in history's unmarked grave of discarded lies...