Essay Archive - Genocide
Genocide
After Rodney King was beaten, and the white police officers were
aquitted, he said "Why can't we all just get along?" A question asked by many
people. Rascist and Genocidal acts such as this have been going on for many
years, and should not be tolerated.
In international law, the crime of destroying, or committing conspiracy
to destroy, a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group is known as Genocide.
It was defined in the Convention on Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of
Genocide, which was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on....
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