Genocidal - Law Dictionary Search Results
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Of or pertaining to genocide as the genocidal policies of the Serbs in Bosnia...
genocide
genocide : acts committed with intent to partially or wholly destroy a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group ;also : the crime of committing such an act ...
genocide
The systematic killing of a racial or cultural group as the Nazi genocide of Jews left few in Germany or Poland after World War II...
jus cogens
jus cogens [New Latin, literally, constraining law] : a principle of international law that is based on values taken to be fundamental to the international community and that cannot be set aside (as by treaty) [it is doubtful that any state has ever violated jus cogens norms on a scale rivaling that of the Third Reich "Princz v. Federal Republic of Germany, 26 F.3d 1166 (1994)"] [genocide and slave trade are violations of jus cogens] ...
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