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THE UNITEDNATIONS DEFINES GENOL IVC ED NATIONS DEFINES GENOC Directions Firs, examine the United Nations definition of genocide provide United Any of the following wets committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part is natic ethine, rivial or roligious group, such as a killing memberdeliberately milleting on the the group, b) saosing in group conditions of life valculated to bring about its player the proup c) forcibly d) imposing measures intended to prevent births within the groups e) forcibly transforring children of the group to another group to destroy" which is very difficult to prove Porexample, the government of Turkey claims that the death of over During the past half century, this definition has been difficult to apply for several reasons. It requires "intent one million Amenian men Women, and children occurred as a consequence of war not because of a deliberate anempt to exterminate people A second issue is that genocide iclimited to agrions against national ethnis, racial or religious groups ino Indonesians in the Were overwhelpseple who are vietnized who are victimized because of their in political activities such as the overwhelmingly ethnic Chinese, or people who are accused of participationsasesuat or women who are? mistreated Third, while mass munder is universally accepted as genocite the foreible transfer of children such as what happened to the children of imprisoned or excelled leftowing activits in Angentify in the 1980 is not. because each permanent member of the United Nations Security Council possesses a veto over council decisions, unless they all agree it is impossible for the United Nations to act against genocide. Task In your group complete the following steps: 1. Discuss the strengths and weaknesses of the definition and try to create a new definition that you believe could be more comprehensive 2. Select one example of genocide and show how your definition applies in this case. prevent genocide in the future.