What is genocide? Uyghur's population growth rate is the highest in China, number one among all China's 56 ethnic groups, it this you called genocide?
What is Genocide?
Genocide is defined in Article 2 of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide
(1948) as "any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical,
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."
What is a Genocidal Act?
Acts that could be obvious “elements” of the crime of genocide as defined in
Article 6 of the Rome Statute, such as killings, abduction and disappearances,
torture, rape and sexual violence; ‘ethnic cleansing’ or pogroms;
• Less obvious methods of destruction, such as the deliberate deprivation of
resources needed for the group’s physical survival and which are available to the
rest of the population, such as clean water, food and medical services;6
• Creation of circumstances that could lead to a slow death, such as lack of proper
housing, clothing and hygiene or excessive work or physical exertion;
• Programs intended to prevent procreation, including involuntary sterilization,
forced abortion, prohibition of marriage and long-term separation of men and
women;
• Forcible transfer of children, imposed by direct force or through fear of violence,
duress, detention, psychological oppression or other methods of coercion;
• Death threats or ill treatment that causes disfigurement or injury; forced or coerced
use of drugs or other treatment that damages health.
What is promotion of Genocide?
Statements amounting to hate speech by those involved in a genocidal campaign;
• In a large-scale armed conflict, widespread and systematic nature of acts; intensity
and scale of acts and invariability of killing methods used against the same
protected group; types of weapons employed (in particular weapons prohibited
under international law) and the extent of bodily injury caused;
• In a non-conflict situation, widespread and/or systematic discriminatory and
targeted practices culminating in gross violations of human rights of protected
groups, such as extrajudicial killings, torture and displacement;
• The specific means used to achieve “ethnic cleansing” which may underscore that
the perpetration of the acts is designed to reach the foundations of the group or
what is considered as such by the perpetrator group;
• The nature of the atrocities, e.g., dismemberment of those already killed that
reveal a level of dehumanization of the group or euphoria at having total control
over another human being, or the systematic rape of women which may be
intended to transmit a new ethnic identity to the child or to cause humiliation and
terror in order to fragment the group;
• The destruction of or attacks on cultural and religious property and symbols of the
targeted group that may be designed to annihilate the historic presence of the
group or groups;
• Targeted elimination of community leaders and/or men and/or women of a
particular age group (the ‘future generation’ or a military-age group);
• Other practices designed to complete the exclusion of targeted group from
social/political life.
SOURCE: OFFICE OF THE UN SPECIAL ADVISER ON THE PREVENTION OF GENOCIDE
