Darfur Awareness

Genocide is defined by the CPPCG(the UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of 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; [and] forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.”

There have been many instances of Genocide in history, one such example that many people know and, only now are the survivors starting to die out is the Holocaust. Starting in 1942 Hitler and his lieutenants started “the Final Solution”. They killed more than 6 million Jews alone; as well as slaughtering other groups such as the physically and mentally disabled, the Gypsies or Romani people and members of the Communist party.

 The term Genocide was first coined by Robert Lemkin, a Polish-Jewish scholar in 1944.  it is derived from the Greek genos meaning tribe or race and the Latin cide meaning: massacre or kill.