The world's broken promise and the word we dare not utter

Article 1
The Contracting Parties confirm that genocide, whether committed in time of peace or in time of war, is a crime under international law which they undertake to prevent and to punish.
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;
(b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
(c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
(d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
(e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.

Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide - signed into force by the UN in 1951

Bangladesh (1971)

• 1 - 3 million Bengalis killed by the army of East Pakistan
  

East Timor (1975 - 2000)

• 200,000 East Timorese killed by the Indonesian army
  

Cambodia (1975 - 1979)

• 1 - 3 million Cambodians by the Khmer Rouge
  

Guatemala (1950's - 1980's)

• 200,000 Mayans killed by the Guatemalan army
  

Bosnia (1992 - 1995)

• 200,000 Muslims killed by Serbs
  

Rhwanda (1994)

• 800,000 Tutsis killed by Hutus

Sudan (1983 - present)

• 2 million killed in continuing civil war
  

Never again?