WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The Genocide Convention was the first human rights treaty adopted by the General Assembly of the United Nations on 9 December 1948 and signified the international community’s commitment to ‘never again’ after the atrocities committed during the Second World War.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Genocide Convention was conceived largely in response to World War II, which saw atrocities such as the Holocaust that lacked an adequate description or legal definition.

Detailed explanation-3: -States parties’ obligations, as well as the object and purpose of the Convention, thus are aimed at preventing and punishing individuals who commit the crime of genocide and there was no intention that a State party should punish itself for the crime of geno-cide.

Detailed explanation-4: -Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, 9 December 1948, 78 UNTS 277. genocide had been a crime and, as such, prohibited even before 1948.

Detailed explanation-5: -The definition contained in Article II of the Convention describes genocide as a crime committed with the intent to destroy a national, ethnic, racial or religious group, in whole or in part. It does not include political groups or so called “cultural genocide”.