Morgan Institute for Human Rights

 

"Ethnic cleansing" is a form of genocide

Both the means and the ends fit the conventions's definition of genocide: "acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group as such." Mulslim men were killed en masse, women and children compelled to flee.

Without question the Genocide Convention applies to widespread atrocities that include killing Muslims, causing them serious bodily or mental harm, deliberately inflicting conditions of life calculated to bring about the group's physical destruction in whole or in part, and imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;

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