UN Convention on Genocide: Article 2 In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:
(a) Killing members of the group;
“A lot of them have been murdered. Some of them through alcohol and drugs have killed themselves. “
“I remember this one boy, I don’t know what happened to him, but he got sick. Maybe they just give him an aspirin or something, and he died that night. They never tried to really find out what is the matter. They never did.”
(b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
“You lost your privileges just for looking at a supervisor the wrong way.” Basil ambers
“she would call me a harlot and a little flirt. And here I was 5 years old, 4 years old, 5 years old. I didn’t even know what those words meant until I became a teenager.” Mary ceaser
(c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
“Have you ever ate rice and macaroni together, with a little bit of meat, like what you would give to a pig”
“I never ever remember making any decisions of my own. It was kind of like we were programmed.”
(d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; (e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.
“They took my brother away and I never saw my brother for a while after that. Me and my little sister went to the girls’ side.”
“that I didn’t belong in the outside world. I didn’t belong there. It was like a big piece of a puzzle trying to find your own self,”
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