Sentences with phrase «terms of genocide»

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«That this House expresses profound concern that, despite voting 279 in favour and none against the motion calling on the Government to refer genocidal atrocities of Daesh to the United Nations Security Council on 14 April 2016, still, no such referral has been made; recalls the words of the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs in an article in the Telegraph on 27 March 2016, Daesh are engaged in what can only be called genocide of the poor Yazidis, though for some baffling reason the Foreign Office still hesitates to use the term genocide; and calls on the Government to ensure that the unanimous will of Parliament is implemented with urgency.»

You would have to give me the definition of what you are using for your understanding of the term genocide.

I first want to say that the term genocide can connote the deliberate killing of a large group of people based on ethnicity, race, nationality, etc. and that is certainly not what we have in the actions of God in the Bible.

Of course the term is often used to refer only to the genocide against the Jews.

The statement declares that «what some historians have termed a «discovery» in reality was an invasion and colonization with legalized occupation, genocide, economic exploitation, and a deep level of institutional racism and moral decadence.»

In a three - page statement, the «criminal» history of America since 1492 is recounted in terms of theft, «ecocide,» rape (two times), colonization (five times), racism (four times), slavery (seven times), exploitation (eight times), and genocide (nine times).

The crime of genocide, a term which has been bantered about for 30 years, has suddenly become recognized as an act of national policy that is condemned by the common will of humankind.

Genocide is a loaded legal term n either u've more facts than de Bible provides or u totally misunderstand de import of ur words.

Hitler's maniacal program of genocide, which annihilated 6 million Jews in our century, has imbued the term «anti-Semitism» with a quality of dread — dread of an incoherent and unconditional evil which is unaccountably present in human form.

City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito on Wednesday likened the Trump administration's handling of immigration enforcement to «ethnic cleansing» — a term frequently associated with genocide.

Secretary of State John Kerry said Thursday that ISIS has been committing genocide against religious minorities in the Middle East — just the second time the executive branch has used the term in relation to an ongoing conflict.

The initial focus is on Raphael Lemkin, a Jewish lawyer who fled the Nazis to the United States, coined the term genocide to describe the deliberate destruction of an ethnic or national group, and pressed the international community to prosecute the crime.

One of the things we learn by studying genocide is that the rehumanization of perpetrators is important to the long - term success of personal and social healing.

Seventy years ago this fall, the word «genocide» made its debut into the English language, on page 79 of the 674 - page Axis Rule in Occupied Europe [which you can find here in Reading 3], in a chapter called «Genocide — A New Term and New Conception for Destruction of Nationsgenocide» made its debut into the English language, on page 79 of the 674 - page Axis Rule in Occupied Europe [which you can find here in Reading 3], in a chapter called «Genocide — A New Term and New Conception for Destruction of NationsGenocide — A New Term and New Conception for Destruction of Nations.»

Consider how the term cultural genocide describes the efforts of the Canadian government to assimilate the Indigenous Peoples through residential schools.

With rights come obligations and responsibilities, and while tolerance would arguably be one of the greatest of these, tolerance for genocide distorts the meaning of the term.

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Entitled Armenity — a term inspired by the diaspora of Armenian artists and intellectuals around the world — the pavilion embraces the work of eighteen contemporary artists, all of which are descendants of Armenian Genocide survivors.

But I think there's a price to be paid, in terms of the offensive element for Holocaust survivors, and it also debases the currency of genocide.

Eleven years before the term genocide originated in 1944, the legal scholar Raphael Lemkin had attempted to make illegal the sort of mass killing perpetrated by the Ottoman Empire upon Armenians in the First World War.

For this honest doubt and skepticism that the highly complex global climate models are correct you have the temerity to socially stigmatize them in a scientific journal with a catch - all term that implies that they are as morally reprehensible as those that «deny» that the Nazi Holocaust of genocide against the Jews?

The invasion of Europeans upon the North and South American Continents resulted in genocide within any definition of the term.

Former CMHR curators have spoken out about being told to limit the content on missing and murdered indigenous women, downplay the role of child services, and avoid using the term genocide.

For most Australians, the popular understanding of the term «genocide» conjures up images only of deliberate, mass killings.