Genocide Convention

  • Have signed and ratified
  • Or acceded to

The Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide ( also Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide; officially Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, CPPCG ) was approved by the General Assembly of the United Nations Resolution 260 A ( III) on December 9, 1948 decision. It came into effect on 12 January 1951.

The Federal Republic of Germany declared its accession 9th August 1954. By law, it was decided to insert a clause as the corresponding § 220a in the Criminal Code ( this paragraph coincided with the Act on the Introduction of the International Criminal Code of June 29, 2002 away). The German Democratic Republic was followed on 27 March 1973 ( with reservations, as all Eastern Bloc countries ).

Content

The text of the Convention was largely formulated by Raphael Lemkin, who in 1944 coined the term genocide in the wake of the genocide of the Herero and Nama 1904-1908, the annihilation of the Armenians in 1915 -1916 and the extermination of the Jews 1939-1945.

Genocide was legally defined in the Convention for the first time as a criminal offense. As for genocide to punish Santander applies,

"Who with the intention of a national, racial, religious or folkloristic group as such to destroy, in whole or in part, intentionally

Implementation

The convention was first put into practice in the context of the judgment given on 2 September 1998 in connection with the genocide in Rwanda in Akayesu judgment. The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda found Jean Paul Akayesu in nine out of fifteen counts and sentenced him to life imprisonment for genocide. Two days later, Jean Kambanda was sentenced as the first head of state for genocide - also to life in prison.

Recognized by the General Assembly of the United Nations or the UN Human Rights Commission genocides

  • Nama and Herero genocide of the (1904-1908)
  • Armenian Genocide (1915 -1916) ( recognized as genocide by the UN Commission on Human Rights )
  • Holocaust (1941-1945)
  • Porajmos (1943-1945)
  • Genocide in Rwanda ( 1994)
  • Srebrenica massacre (1995 )
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