Many people that have lived through a genocide may ask “Why did I live?” (Wiesel, 4). According to the Genocide Convention the term “Genocide” is” killing members of a 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” (Stanton, Para 3). The Genocide Convention is a document that contains 19 articles defining how a mass murders of members of a group is considered a Genocide. The Genocide Convention was placed into law in 1948 in response to the extreme number of murders committed during World War II (U.N, Treaty). The United Nations Treaty Collection shows that 147 countries ratified the Genocide Convention, meaning that all the 147 counties recognize the that the law has gone in affect.
The Genocide Convention is important because it can many people understand the history of any genocide, it can provide knowledge into ways racist behavior can lead up to mass murder.
The Convention can also help people understand why a Genocide begins, what the roots of
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The rouge before acting organized everything that they were planned to do. They first made the kids get separated from the parents in order to make the parents miss their kids and work to get their kids back. They didn 't have the kids and adults together, they also documented people who were in the concentration camps. The Khmer rouge dehumanized the Cambodian society by making a false accusation that they were influenced by the Vietnamese people and helping them in the war against the United States. They first started to kill the educated people to have any interference in the genocide. The Khmer Rouge also interrogated its own people, and executed members on suspicions of