# Story Highlights
# NEW: House panel passes resolution 27-21
# Bush said passage of resolution would cause "great harm"
# House resolution calls killing of Armenians during World War I "genocide"
# Turkish president says passage of resolution would create a "backlash"
http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/10/10/us.turkey.armenians/index.html
AND YET THEY CAN NOT PAST ONE ON THE GERMANY, FRANCE, BELGIUM...DO I NEED TO GO ON??
Genocide
According to the legal definition, as codified in the 1948 United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial, or religious group, as such: (a) killing members of the group; (b) causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; (c) deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; (d) imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; (e) forcibly transferring children of the group to another group. For more information, see
www.ushmm.org/conscience/history/.
German minister Heidemarie Wieczorek-Zeul told a commemorative ceremony that the brutal crushing of the Herero uprising 100 years ago was genocide.
But the German government has ruled out compensation for victims' descendants.
A group of Herero has filed a case against Germany in the United States demanding $4bn in compensation.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/3565938.stm
# NEW: House panel passes resolution 27-21
# Bush said passage of resolution would cause "great harm"
# House resolution calls killing of Armenians during World War I "genocide"
# Turkish president says passage of resolution would create a "backlash"
http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/10/10/us.turkey.armenians/index.html
AND YET THEY CAN NOT PAST ONE ON THE GERMANY, FRANCE, BELGIUM...DO I NEED TO GO ON??
Genocide
According to the legal definition, as codified in the 1948 United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial, or religious group, as such: (a) killing members of the group; (b) causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; (c) deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; (d) imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; (e) forcibly transferring children of the group to another group. For more information, see
www.ushmm.org/conscience/history/.
German minister Heidemarie Wieczorek-Zeul told a commemorative ceremony that the brutal crushing of the Herero uprising 100 years ago was genocide.
But the German government has ruled out compensation for victims' descendants.
A group of Herero has filed a case against Germany in the United States demanding $4bn in compensation.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/3565938.stm