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Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, Article II

January 31st, 2010

Website: http://www.un.org/preventgenocide/adviser/genocide.shtml
Description: This may at first seem like it is out of scope for this website, but it actually really does belong.  The past couple weeks I have been listening to all of Bob Whitaker’s porch talk podcasts.  As you may recall, I kind of discovered or re-discovered Bob through the White Rabbit Radio podcasts. The theme that keeps running through Bob’s podcasts and writings is genocide. Reflecting on my own lifetime in America, I can see the pattern now.  There really is a genocide program in place against Whites.   I didn’t see it clearly before listening to all these podcasts.  Now I do.  Read the UN statement. Listen for yourself.

What is genocide?

The Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (1948) defines genocide (article 2) as “any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group…” including:

(a) Killing members of the group;
(b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
(c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
(d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
(e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.

All such acts are violations of human rights, and may also be crimes against humanity or war crimes, depending on the context in which they were committed. The Convention confirms that genocide, whether committed in time of peace or war, is a crime under international law which parties to the Convention undertake “to prevent and to punish” (article 1). Because it is a part of international customary law the Convention is considered applicable in all countries, irrespective of whether they have signed or ratified it.

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