Brendan Forsyth
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When power trumps justice
Darfur, an area in western Sudan, is the site of the first genocide of the 21st century.
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The ultimate crime against humanity
Fifteen genocides have been committed since 1900.
To paraphrase Article Two of the United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, genocide is any act committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group. Genocide includes killing members of the group, causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group, deliberately inflicting on the group conditions aimed at a group’s physical destruction and forcibly transferring children of the group to another group or preventing births.