Genocide Matters: Ongoing Issues and Emerging Perspectives by Joyce Apsel & Ernesto Verdeja

Author:Joyce Apsel & Ernesto Verdeja [Apsel, Joyce & Verdeja, Ernesto]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Political Science, International Relations, Diplomacy, Security (National & International)
ISBN: 9780415814898
Google: 3UvcMgEACAAJ
Goodreads: 16270053
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-01-15T09:28:28+00:00

Chapter 6

Genocide by Attrition

Silent and efficient

Sheri P. Rosenberg and Everita Silina*

He did not need bullets. He used other weapons: rapes, hunger, and fear. As efficient, but silent.

(Luis Moreno-Ocampo, First Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, regarding his application for a Warrant of Arrest of Sudanese President Omar Hassan al Bashir for the crime of genocide in Darfur)1

Definitions function to make the world and relations within it more ordered and predictable. The 1948 United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (“Genocide Convention”) defines genocide 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;

Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.2

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