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This 8 page paper considers the definition of genocide and the events that occurred in East Timor, focusing on the post ballot period of 1999. The 1948 convention has a definition that is open to interpretation regarding issues such as intention. This paper consider how, the events may be considered as Genocide, and why the charge may be difficult to bring, epically with the additional criteria or requirements recommended by the Preparatory Commission for the International Criminal Court. The bibliography cites 10 sources.
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File: TS14_TEgenocide.rtf
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is that of the "mass killing of substantial numbers of human beings, when not in the course of military action against the military forces of an avowed enemy, under conditions
of the essential defenselessness and helplessness of the victims". Here the intentionality behind the actions are irrelevant, it is an action led definition. This is one way of interpreting genocide,
and could be included within the interpretation of the convention. However, in looking at this we may wish to consider not only the theoretical application, but the application in the
real world, such as if this is a suitable definition to be used and how it would interpret specific events such as the mass killings in East Timor. The
term genocide is first seen used during the beginning of the 1940s by Raphael Lemkin, a Polish-American jurist (Lankin, 1947). Here the meaning was the way that certain groups of
individuals were purposefully destroyed. The time f this witting was during the Holocaust, but when using the term genocide, a derivation made up for the Greek terms for race and
killing, Lemkin was also very aware of the mass killing that had occurred earlier in the twentieth century, such as that of the force deportations of the Ottoman empires Armenians
and the families that had lived in the Cossack lands and the Ukraine where seven million were killed between 1932 and 1933 (Saul, 2001). These consideration are worth mentioning as
they took place and as such influenced the conventions that was written in 1948, and can be seen as the legal origins of the initial definition of genocide. However, at
this stage there is an important role of intention as it is the destruction of a race (Lankin, 1947). Intention is also seen in the convention, under article two
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