It aims to hold member states accountable for the equal and moral protection of their own populations and all populations at risk of genocide and other mass atrocity crimes. Discussion is increasing to meet the needs of millions of individuals that have suffered and are suffering from ethnic cleansing and genocide in the world today.
Photo: Flickr. Blog - Latest News. Ethnic Cleansing Ethnic cleansing is the process of removing particular groups from a specific area based on race, nationality, religion and other identifying principles. As for inviting outside military intervention, the label of genocide shares the same risk as the label of ethnic cleansing.
What ethnic cleansing does not provide is a legal implication, which is vital. Live Now. Cato at Liberty. Blog Home RSS. Email Signup Sign up to have blog posts delivered straight to your inbox! Banking and Finance. Constitutional Law. Criminal Justice. Defense and Foreign Policy. Free Speech and Civil Liberties. Global Freedom. Government and Politics.
Spokeswoman Heather Nauret said in a statement that the U. The Associated Press reports that U. To qualify as genocide, the actions must be done with intent to eliminate an entire group of people.
Tribunals have historically struggled to establish a legal standard for genocidal intent. Few perpetrators, with the notable exception of the Nazi regime, have left explicit plans detailing their intentions to eradicate groups. Ethnic cleansing, on the other hand, only refers to the expulsion of a group from a certain area.
Ethnic cleansing has not been defined and is not recognized as a crime under international law, according to the U. And in reality, the lines between ethnic cleansing and genocide are often blurred.
More than , Rohingya refugees, escaping violence and persecution in Myanmar, have fled their homes in the last two months. Rohingya refugees made their way across the border to Bangladesh in earlier spouts of violence in the s and s and again in October The latest wave of refugees occurred after Aug. The Myanmar military retaliated against Rohingya villages in the Rakhine state, with accounts documenting villages burned, women and girls raped, and hundreds of Rohingya killed.
The U. But the treaty does not dictate the outcome of a genocide conviction. If national courts in countries that have signed the treaty fail to prosecute individuals, the International Criminal Court in The Hague is supposed to step in.
But the International Criminal Court has no authority to arrest on its own and must rely on the cooperation of individual nations to enforce punishment.
Using the term genocide also has political implications. On April 28, , a reporter asked U. State Department spokeswoman Christine Shelley whether the events in Rwanda could be considered a genocide.
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