Documenting the Horror. 4. Time for Revising the “Convention on Genocide”?
A re-calibration of its language, in the full spirit of Raphael Lemkin, can meet recent developments in the heinous practice of genocides.
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A re-calibration of its language, in the full spirit of Raphael Lemkin, can meet recent developments in the heinous practice of genocides.
The planned, organized, and systematic suppression of distinctive cultures aims at annihilating human groups for what makes them what they are. One perpetrator is the People’s Republic of China.
The UN “Convention on Genocide” excludes cultural destruction as a marker for genocide, to avoid a vague use of the term “culture.” But culture is not a fuzzy concept. It identifies peoples.
The construction of Gangtuo Power Plant compels thousands of Tibetans to relocate. It is about money but also contributes to destroying Tibetan culture and religion.
What China does in Tibet “may amount to genocide,” a resolution passed on December 14 proclaims.
“If the violent educational policy that the CCP is imposing on Tibetan children will continue for 15 or 20 years, it will utterly end the 4700-years old history of Tibetan civilization.”
This political move would solve an intractable historical problem: East Turkestan (Ch. Xinjiang) lies outside China’s Great Wall.
Our study of the Xinjiang Police Files reveals one of the strangest collections ever of crimes for which Uyghurs are detained.
Uyghurs are hounded as they flee their homeland while nation states and international bodies look on.
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