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* the [[Intention|deliberate]] and [[systematic]] destruction of a [[Race|racial]], [[political]], or [[Culture|cultural] [[group]]
*Origin: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ 1944]
*the [[Intention|deliberate]] and [[systematic]] destruction of a [[Race|racial]], [[political]], or [[Culture|cultural]] [[group]]
==Description==
==Description==
While a precise definition varies among '''genocide''' [[scholars]], a [[legal]] definition is found in the 1948 United Nations [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convention_on_the_Prevention_and_Punishment_of_the_Crime_of_Genocide Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (CPPCG)]. Article 2 of this convention defines genocide as "any of the following [[acts]] committed with [[intent]] to destroy, in whole or in part, a [[nation]]al, ethnic, [[Race|racial]] or [[religious]] [[group]], as such: killing members of the group; causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life, calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; [and] forcibly transferring [[children]] of the group to another group."[1]
While a precise definition varies among '''genocide''' [[scholars]], a [[legal]] definition is found in the 1948 United Nations [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convention_on_the_Prevention_and_Punishment_of_the_Crime_of_Genocide Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (CPPCG)]. Article 2 of this convention defines genocide as "any of the following [[acts]] committed with [[intent]] to destroy, in whole or in part, a [[nation]]al, ethnic, [[Race|racial]] or [[religious]] [[group]], as such: killing members of the group; causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life, calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; [and] forcibly transferring [[children]] of the group to another group."[1]
<center>For lessons on the [[topic]] of '''Genocide''', follow [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Category:Genocide '''''this link'''''].</center>
The preamble to the CPPCG states that instances of genocide have taken place throughout [[history]],[1] but it was not until [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raphael_Lemkin Raphael Lemkin] coined the term and the prosecution of perpetrators of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Holocaust Holocaust] at the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuremberg_trials Nuremberg trials] that the United Nations agreed to the CPPCG which defined the crime of genocide under international [[law]].
The preamble to the CPPCG states that instances of genocide have taken place throughout [[history]],[1] but it was not until [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raphael_Lemkin Raphael Lemkin] coined the term and the prosecution of perpetrators of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Holocaust Holocaust] at the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuremberg_trials Nuremberg trials] that the United Nations agreed to the CPPCG which defined the crime of genocide under international [[law]].