What is the definition of genocide?
The legal definition is found in the 1948 UN convention on the prevention and punishment of the crime of genocide. Article two of the 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; [and] forcibly transferring children of the group to another group”. Did genocide take place in 1915? Armenians think so. Turkey accepts that atrocities took place but argues that there was no systematic attempt to destroy the Christian Armenians. It puts the number of deaths during 1915 at around 300,000 and says many innocent Muslim Turks also died in the turmoil of war. Argentina, Belgium, Canada, France,
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