Raphael Lemkin Opposition To The Genocide Convention

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The United States Senate and the Convention :- American opposition to the Genocide Convention stemmed primarily from four sources: a group of Judges who had participated in the Nuremberg Trials, some of the activists in the movement for human rights, a section of the American Bar Association (ABA) and, above all, the Southern wing of the Democratic party. In April 1949, Lemkin was voicing his concern to contacts in the American Jewish Committee (AJC) that the Genocide Convention would not be acted on in Congress during the current session. During April and May 1949, the United States Committee for a UN Genocide Convention staged a series of meetings at which religious organizations, women’s associations and trade union bodies were

When a new international labour movement without Communist participation was set-up, Lemkin tried to interest the American trade union leaders in an anti-genocide clause for insertion in its constitution, highlighting that the Soviet government was the only one practising genocide on a large scale.13 Within the United States Committee for a UN Genocide Convention, there was increasing tension between Raphael Lemkin and the leadership. Lemkin assembled a formidable coalition consisting of Church and Jewish bodies, women’s associations, trade unions and minority groups (Poles and Lithuanians) in favour of ratification of the convention by the Senate. As the campaign foundered, Lemkin started quarrelling with his most loyal supporters, James Rosenberg and the United States Committee for a Genocide Convention. He also fell sick at a critical time between October 1951 and March 1952, when the campaign needed careful monitoring. Without the backing of a superpower, the United States, in the 1950s, the Genocide Convention could not be enforced against offending parties. It was a hammer blow to Lemkin’s hopes. He was forced to adopt a defensive posture to protect the convention from the encroachment of rival human

The provisional measures requested inter-alia are that Yugoslavia must immediately cease and desist from all acts of genocide and genocidal acts against the people and State of Bosnia and Herzegovina including but not limited to murder, summary executions, torture, rape, mayhem, so-called 'ethnic cleansing', the wanton devastation of villages, towns, districts and cities; the siege of villages, towns, districts and cities; starvation of civilian population, the interruption of, interference with, or harassment of humanitarian relief supplies to the civilian population by the international community, the bombardment of civilian population centers, and the detention of civilian in concentration camps or otherwise. International Court of Justice in the Case Concerning Application of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (Bosnia and Tierzogovina v. Yugoslavia) (Serbia and Montenegro) passed an unanimous order in 1993 that Yugoslavia should immediately take all measures within it power to prevent commission of the crime of genocide, and Yugoslavia and Bosnia and Herzegovina should not take any action and should ensure that no action is taken which may aggravate or extend the existing dispute over the