The failure to prevent past genocides caused UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan to lament as follows on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the Rwandan genocide in 2004: "We must never forget our collective failure to protect at least 800,000 defenseless men, women and children who perished in Rwanda 10 years ago. The answer is for the international community to pay heed to the early warnings of genocide - and incitement has been demonstrated to be a predictor of the genocide to come - and to act now, as mandated under the Genocide Convention, to prevent this clear and present danger, not only to Israel and the Jewish people, but to international peace and security
The international community needs to review on few matters regarding the weakened application of the Genocide Convention. There should be serious amendments in the meaning of genocide stated under Article II of the convention in order to broaden its scope. With the passage of time the technology is racing in full throttle so is the criminal minds. The law and politics of genocide stagnated for several decades following the adoption of the convention in 1948. Unlike other human rights treaties, there has been no "treaty body" or committee charged with ensuring the Genocide Convention's implementation and helping to define its content
Despite being a member of the treaty, the member states treat the Convention like a dead- letter. Whatever the means is, if the message is clear it will be taken as authoritative interpretation of the convention's obligation to prevent genocide. Genocide have tended to wholly equate it with the murder and only the murder by government of people due to their national, ethical, racial or religious (or, what is called indelible) group membership
A human being is complete when he has his body and soul together, if one of them dies the existence of a human is completely worthless. In an era of globalization, the United States alone cannot exert effective pressure on the government of a despotic nation without multilateral cooperation. The international effort to combat tyranny worldwide lies solely in words, not actions, as evidenced by the refusal of rest of the world nations to take a strong stand against the Government indulged in genocidal activities. From classification to organization, preparation through extermination, genocide is something that the whole world has witnessed. As a global community it is our job to learn these steps, so when the phases of genocide begin we can prevent them from progressing and save millions of lives
Genocide is first and foremost a crime (and only secondarily a historical event or sociological process). War isn't this century's biggest killer. Once the common mass starts raising their voice against the crime no body would dare to commit such heinous crime in future
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