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Article: Genocide: the crime of the century; the jurisprudence of death at the dawn of the new millennium.
- Article from:
- Houston Journal of International Law
- Article date:
- March 22, 2001
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The twentieth century was terrorized by the terrible triad of nationalism,(1) communism(2) and totalitarianism.(3) There were considerable costs. Substantial portions of various ethnic, racial and religious groups were exterminated in the service of these higher callings.(4) In the last decade, the decline of communism and the transcendence of totalitarianism, rather than alleviating atrocities, has unleashed ancient animosities which threaten to further fracture and splinter the territorial integrity of many states.(5)
This article traces the international legal response to a century of global genocide. Initially, the development of the concept of genocide is ...