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Genocide and UN Intervention - Essay

Genocide and UN Intervention

THE CONFLICT IN SYRIA

Why has the United Nations not intervened?

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POLITICS 497 – 01 – DISCIPLINE OF POLITICAL SCIENCE -

SPRING 2014

Tyler Watkins

In the past there has been many circumstances of extremely violent acts against human right laws as cases of genocide where the United Nations has seen conditions where humanitarian intervention is needed. In this paper I will be analyzing the current Syrian state and past cases of genocide including: Rwanda, Libya, Cote d’ Iviore, South Sudan, Central African Republic and the current situation in Syria. The study and research of these occurrences will be to answer the questions such as, What attributes of a ...

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or national group”. The term Genocide was coined by Raphael Lemkin in his work Axis Rule in Occupied Europe Genocide by combining Greek genos (?????; race, people) and Latin cidere (to kill). Many legal scholars debate against the actual definition of genocide, however a more legal definition appears in Article 2 of The 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide ("Genocide Convention") (CCPG). Genocide is then defined as “any of the following acts committed with the intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group: killing members of the group; causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; deliberately inflicting on the group the conditions of life calculated to bring about its; physical destruction in whole or part; imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.” The preamble to the CPPCG states that instances of ...

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obviously something that seperates Syria from past UN genocides interventions so to find this difference we must look at past cases of genocide

UN document excerpt

Another criticism of the CPPCG is that when its provisions have been invoked by the United Nations Security Council, they have only been invoked to punish those who have already committed genocide and have left a paper trail. It was this criticism that led to the adoption of UN Security Council Resolution 1674 by the United Nations Security Council on 28 April 2006 which commits the Council to action to protect civilians in armed conflict and to protect populations from genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes ...

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Added: 3/30/2014 08:44:12 PM
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