![]() ![]() The Genocide Convention defined “genocide” as “acts committed to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, or religious group as such.” These “acts” included “killing members of the group,” “causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group,” and “deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part.” In addition to the “attempt to commit genocide,” other punishable offenses defined by the Convention included “conspiracy to commit genocide,” “direct and public incitement to commit genocide,” and “complicity in genocide.” Another distinctive feature of the Genocide Convention was that it made the crime of genocide a punishable offense under international law whether it was committed “ in time of peace or in time of war.” The Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide had been adopted in 1948 in the aftermath of the Holocaust. ![]() The petition sought to demonstrate that the government of the United States was in violation of the U.N. The massive petition (over 200 pages) was delivered to the United Nations in Paris in December 1951. ![]() We Charge Genocide: The Historic Petition to the United Nations for Relief from a Crime of The United States against the Negro People(1951) is as relevant today as it was in its own time. They are displayed on the interactive map and detailed one by one in a descriptive list below. These killings of unarmed Black men and women by police and by lynch mobs took place between 19. Below are the 152 incidents that the Civil Rights Congress offered as evidence in support of this claim. In 1951, the Civil Rights Congress (affiliated with the Communist Party) engaged in a campaign to hold the United States accountable for genocide against African Americans. ![]() The 1951 Black Lives Matter Campaign by Susan A. ![]()
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