Defining or diverting genocide: Changing the comportment of genocide

International Criminal Law Review

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 387-400

  Kabatsi, Freda ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 34248033835     PISSN: 1567536X     EISSN: 15718123     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/1571812054940085     Document Type: Article

References (22)

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2. Prosecutor v. Akayesu, Case No. ICTR-95-1-95, Available at , at par. 523.
3. Special Report on the Crime of Genocide, Valentina's Nightmare, available at (20.10.2004)
4. Raphael Lemkin, Axis Rule in Occupied Europe 79(1944). Lemkin characterised it as a multi-faceted attack on the existence of a human group.
5. Special Report on the Crime of Genocide, supra n. 4.
6. Thomas W. Simon., Defining Genocide, 15 Wisconsin International Law Journal 243 (1996-1997) at p. 243.
7. For more on this see, The Campaign against Genocide, article on . (20.10.2004).
8. Special Report on the Crime of Genocide, supra n. 4.
9. Deborah Harris, Defining Genocide: Defining History, Eras Online Journal Available at (20.10.2004).
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11. William Schabas, 'The Jelisic Case and the Mens Rea Requirement of Genocide' 14 Leiden Journal of International Law (2001) 125.
12. The Genocide Convention, Article II.
13. In the Trial Chamber (Prosecutor v. Akayesu, ICTR 96-4-T, ,), Alison Desfriges who addressed court as an expert, in describing a group commented... the primary criteria for defining an ethnic group is the sense of belonging to that ethnic group. It is a sense that can be shifted over time...
14. ICTR-96-3, Trial Chamber Judgement 6/12/1999, see .
15. Stakic, IT-97-24; Trial Chamber judgement 3/7/2003, can be found at .
16. See, Deborah Harris, Defining Genocide: Defining History, Eras Online Journal available at (20.10.2004).
17. For more, see; Ken Gewertz, Defining genocide: Allan Ryan uses his legal knowledge to find ways to classify terror. The Harvard Gazette, Available at (20.10.2004).
18. Jose Alvarez, Crimes of States/Crimes of Hate. Lessons from Rwanda. 24 Yale Journal of Int. Law 365(1999) at 400.
19. See, Kristina Sarkikyan, Genocide: "Never Again" Is "Happening Again" 31/05/2003 | Chechen Times Available at, (20.10.2004).
20. Classifying The Killings in Sudan as Genocide, 19 N. Y. L. Sch. J. Hum. Rts. 890(2003).
21. Empty Promises: Human Rights Watch Summary, See, (downloaded on 9/10/2004).
22. Aparna H. Kumar, Defining genocide defies agreement (Monday August 23rd, 2004). Available at . (20.10.2004).