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    The Genocide Act 1969 (c. 12) was an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It gave effect to the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of...
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    169 genocide] (in Swedish). Prevent Genocide International. 1964. Retrieved 29 January 2017. Frank Chalk: The United Kingdom Genocide Act of 1969: Origins...
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  • The genocide of indigenous peoples, colonial genocide, or settler genocide is the elimination of indigenous peoples as a part of the process of colonialism...
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    The Cambodian genocide was the systematic persecution and killing of Cambodian citizens by the Khmer Rouge under the leadership of Prime Minister of Democratic...
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    The Bangladesh genocide (Bengali: একাত্তরের গণহত্যা, romanized: Ēkātturēr Gôṇôhôtyā, lit. '71's genocide', Bengali: বাঙালি গণহত্যা, romanized: Bāṅāli...
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    characterized as genocide. Debates are ongoing as to whether the entire process or only specific periods or events meet the definitions of genocide. Many of these...
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    Crown Court after a jury deemed their action was reasonable under the Genocide Act 1969. The Hawk was destined for Indonesia where the women argued it would...
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    The Libyan genocide, also known in Libya as Shar (Arabic: شر, lit. 'Evil'), was the genocide of Libyan Arabs and the systematic destruction of Libyan...
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    Van Reybrouck, "It would be absurd ... to speak of an act of 'genocide' or a 'holocaust'; genocide implies the conscious, planned annihilation of a specific...
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    Genocide is the intentional destruction of a people in whole or in part. The term was coined in 1944 by Raphael Lemkin. It is defined in Article 2 of the...
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    regarded by the majority of genocide scholars to have an "intent to destroy" as a requirement for any act to be labelled genocide; there is also growing agreement...
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  • Seeds of Hope (category Genocide prevention)
    Crown Court, after a jury deemed their action reasonable under the Genocide Act 1969. This made it the first Ploughshares action to result in a not guilty...
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    century, scholars have cited the act and subsequent removals as an early example of state-sanctioned ethnic cleansing or genocide or settler colonialism; some...
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  • 127 acts of Parliament were passed in 1969: 65 public general acts and 62 local acts. indicates that an act is available to view at legislation.gov...
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    The California genocide was a series of systematized killings of thousands of Indigenous people of California by United States government agents and private...
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    The principal aims of the act are: to incorporate into domestic law the offences contained in the Rome Statute (genocide, war crimes and crimes against...
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    Genocide is the intentional destruction of a people in whole or in part. The term was coined in 1944 by Raphael Lemkin. It is defined in Article 2 of the...
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    The Isaaq genocide (Somali: Xasuuqii beesha Isaaq; Arabic: الإبادة الجماعية لقبيلة إسحاق), also known as the Hargeisa Holocaust, was the systematic, state-sponsored...
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  • Parliament of the United Kingdom, which ran from 30 October 1968 until 22 October 1969. Acts passed since 1963 are cited by calendar year, as opposed to the convention...
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    Stolen Generations (category Genocides in Oceania)
    (Consequential Amendments) Act 2002, and so the Stolen Generations cannot be considered genocide under Australian law because the Act is not retrospective....
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  • The genocide of indigenous peoples in Brazil began with the Portuguese colonization of the Americas, when Pedro Álvares Cabral made landfall in what is...
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    these killings would constitute genocide. Melvin also asserts that the extermination of the PKI was an act of genocide by pointing out that the PKI themselves...
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    Trail of Tears (category Genocide of Indigenous peoples of North America)
    meet the standard of cultural genocide". In contrast, some scholars have debated that the Trail of Tears was a genocidal act. Historian Jeffrey Ostler argues...
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  • paper in 1969. The White Paper proposed to abolish all legal documents that had previously existed, including (but not limited to) the Indian Act, and all...
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    Chetnik crimes against Muslims and Croats during this period as constituting genocide. The Chetnik movement drew its members from the interwar Chetnik Association...
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  • Razakars (Pakistan) (category 1971 Bangladesh genocide perpetrators)
    Muslim League, and Jamaat-e-Islami,. Bangladesh Genocide Remembrance Day honors the victims of genocide. Following the surrender of the East Pakistani...
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    based on the International Crimes (Tribunals) Act of 1973, which addresses serious crimes such as genocide and crimes against humanity. Chowdhury was born...
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    The Genocide of Serbs in the Independent State of Croatia (Serbo-Croatian: Genocid nad Srbima u Nezavisnoj Državi Hrvatskoj / Геноцид над Србима у Независној...
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    Ubwicanyi (Killings), was a series of mass killings—often characterised as a genocide—which were committed in Burundi in 1972 by the Tutsi-dominated army and...
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  • The issue of Armenian genocide reparations derives from the Armenian genocide of 1915 committed by the Ottoman Empire. Such reparations might be of financial...
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