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Facts from World History
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Genocide is defined by the Convention on
the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (CPPCG)
Article 2 as "any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy,
in whole or in part, a national,
ethnic, 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."
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For many, the Rwandan Genocide stands out as historically significant, not only because of the sheer number of
people that were murdered in such a short period of time, but also because of the way that many Western countries responded
to the atrocities. Despite intelligence provided before the killing began, and international news media coverage reflecting
the true scale of violence as the genocide unfolded, virtually all first-world countries declined to intervene.
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