Investigation Into Certain Past Instances of Genocide and Exploration of Policy Options for the Future: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Future Foreign Policy Research and Development of the Committee on International Relations, House of Representatives, Ninety-fourth Congress, Second Session, May 11, August 30, 1976 |
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... Jewish Committee _ - _- Dawidowicz , Lucy S. , author and professor of social history , Yeshiva University Schorsch , Ismar , dean of graduate studies , the Jewish Theological Seminary of America___ . 41 བརྒྱ འ ུ ཙྭ ༄ 46 56 66 86 8899 ...
... Jewish Committee _ - _- Dawidowicz , Lucy S. , author and professor of social history , Yeshiva University Schorsch , Ismar , dean of graduate studies , the Jewish Theological Seminary of America___ . 41 བརྒྱ འ ུ ཙྭ ༄ 46 56 66 86 8899 ...
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... Jews . We will examine the details of these tragedies and try to draw from them conclusions as to the nature of genocide and how our Nation can respond in the future . We have before us a panel of distinguished guests who will provide ...
... Jews . We will examine the details of these tragedies and try to draw from them conclusions as to the nature of genocide and how our Nation can respond in the future . We have before us a panel of distinguished guests who will provide ...
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... Jews , the Ar- menians were an utterly vulnerable minority . They had no parent state to retaliate , to deter , or counteract , and thus were totally left to the mercy of men administering " internal affairs " . WARTIME EMERGENCY ...
... Jews , the Ar- menians were an utterly vulnerable minority . They had no parent state to retaliate , to deter , or counteract , and thus were totally left to the mercy of men administering " internal affairs " . WARTIME EMERGENCY ...
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... Jews as victims , in large part genocide was afforded by the high degree of vulnerability of these two groups , attended by a correspondingly high propen ler- ance of power accruing to their victimizers . It is therefore worth stressing ...
... Jews as victims , in large part genocide was afforded by the high degree of vulnerability of these two groups , attended by a correspondingly high propen ler- ance of power accruing to their victimizers . It is therefore worth stressing ...
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... Jews , as the peoples of the Book , ehl alkitab , can be tolerated as subordinate religious communities , dimmis , provided a price is exacted from them through an array of levies either voluntarily or under conditions of " subjection ...
... Jews , as the peoples of the Book , ehl alkitab , can be tolerated as subordinate religious communities , dimmis , provided a price is exacted from them through an array of levies either voluntarily or under conditions of " subjection ...
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Page 141 - Convention, 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...
Page 170 - These later decisions have fashioned the principle that the constitutional guarantees of free speech and free press do not permit a State to forbid or proscribe advocacy of the use of force or of law violation except where such advocacy is directed to inciting or producing imminent lawless action and is likely to incite or produce such action.
Page 179 - I: by seven votes to five, that a State which has made and maintained a reservation which has been objected to by one or more of the parties to the Convention but not by others, can be regarded as being a party to the Convention if the reservation is compatible with the object and purpose of the Convention; otherwise, that State cannot be regarded as being a party to the Convention.
Page 90 - International Convention for the Prevention of the Pollution of the Sea by Oil, 1954.
Page 233 - Each Member of the United Nations undertakes to comply with the decision of the International Court of Justice in any case to which it is a party.
Page 164 - The Contracting Parties undertake to enact, in accordance with their respective Constitutions, the necessary legislation to give effect to the provisions of the present Convention and, in particular, to provide effective penalties for persons guilty of genocide or of any of the other acts enumerated in article III.
Page 231 - Any Contracting Party may call upon the competent organs of the United Nations to take such action under the Charter of the United Nations as they consider appropriate for the prevention and suppression of acts of genocide or any of the other acts enumerated in article III.
Page 46 - The Turkish portions of the present Ottoman Empire should be assured a secure sovereignty, but the other nationalities which are now under Turkish rule should be assured an undoubted security of life and an absolutely unmolested opportunity of autonomous development...
Page 142 - Persons charged with genocide or any of the other acts enumerated in article III shall be tried by a competent tribunal of the State in the territory of which the act was committed, or by such international penal tribunal as may have jurisdiction with respect to those Contracting Parties which shall have accepted its jurisdiction.
Page 218 - Disputes between the Contracting Parties relating to the interpretation, application or fulfilment of the present Convention, including those relating to the responsibility of a State for genocide or for any of the other acts enumerated in article III shall be submitted to the International Court of Justice at the request of any of the parties to the dispute.