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Genocide is a crime on a different scale to all other crimes against humanity and implies an intention to completely exterminate the chosen group. Genocide is therefore both the gravest and the greatest of the crimes against humanity:

In the same way as in a case of homicide the natural right of the individual to exist is implied, so in the case of genocide as a crime, the principle that any group has a natural right to exist is clearly evident. Attempts to eliminate such groups violate this right to exist and to develop within the international community.

A genocide is a conspiracy aimed at the total destruction of a group and thus requires a concerted plan of action. The instigators and initiators of a genocide are cool-minded theorists first and barbarians only second. The specificity of genocide does not arise from the extent of the killings, nor their savagery or resulting infamy, but solely from the intention: the destruction of a group.

The Convention for the Prevention and the Punishment of the Crime of Genocide which was voted into existence by the General Assembly of the United Nations (UN) in 1948. After stating in Article 1 that genocide is a crime under international law, the Convention laid down the following definition:

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.

Quote : It must be noted that among most people there is a great reluctance to commit atrocities; atrocities that contravene values taught in the family, religious teachings, and perhaps even instinct itself. Nevertheless, most people can be conditioned in such a way that, under certain circumstances, the perpetration of extreme violence becomes possible. The state often plays a fundamental role in this process and in the organization of genocide and other gross human rights violations in general. For example it is the state that helps to define exactly who is an “enemy” and therefore who is outside of the moral community. The state may also develop a bureaucracy of genocide that uses techniques such as “technicalization” (the use of technical language to abstract and dehumanize individuals and groups) and “fragmentalization” (the assignment of small specialized tasks to individuals in such a way that they do not perceive themselves as part of grand extermination plan). Finally, physical distance (through such means as industrial killing and long-distance weaponry) make it easier for the perpetrators to commit atrocities. In the final analysis, genocide is not something that occurs spontaneously, but rather the causation of genocide can be found in leaders who manipulate root factors in order to create the requisite organization and societal conditions for mass killing.

Raphael Lemkin, the man who coined the term “genocide” and dedicated his life to seeing that the intent to exterminate a race be identified as a crime over and above mass murder and crimes against humanity, only took one shade of meaning from the Latin gen and Greek genos. Other shades may be discerned from considering the English words that contain that essential root: genesis, generation, genetics, genitals, engender, and the most interesting, progeny, which means offspring. The National Geographic film, In the Womb says that “fetus” means offspring, so, all legal definitions aside, it would be reasonable to say at least that abortion is progeny-cide.

Quote : Amnesty International sees the development of broader definitions of genocide to be positive. For example, in Ecuador, groups are expanded to include those defined on the basis of political condition, gender, sexual orientation, age, health, or conscience. The official French definition, while not as specific as Ecuador's, is perhaps the most inclusive of any nation. France's definition of genocide begins with the recognized target groups of "national, ethnic, racial and religious" but adds, "or of a group determined by any other arbitrary criterion.