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The convention was passed to outlaw actions similar to [[the Holocaust]] by [[Nazi Germany]] during [[World War II]]. The first draft of the Convention included political killings, but the [[Soviet Union|USSR]]<ref>{{cite book |author=Robert Gellately & Ben Kiernan |title=The Specter of Genocide: Mass Murder in Historical Perspective |publisher=Cambridge University Press |location=Cambridge, UK |year=2003 |isbn=0-521-52750-3 | pages= 267 |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=Ay76mYBLU3sC&pg=PA267&dq=where+Stalin+was+presumably+anxious+to+avoid+his+purges+being+subjected+to+genocidal+scrutiny&ie=ISO-8859-1}}</ref> along with some other nations would not accept that actions against groups identified as holding similar political opinions or social status would constitute genocide,<ref>{{cite book |author=Staub, Ervin |title=The Roots of Evil: The Origins of Genocide and Other Group Violence |publisher=Cambridge University Press |location=Cambridge, UK |pages= 8|isbn=0-521-42214-0 |url= http://books.google.com/books?id=29u-vt_KgGEC&pg=PA8&lpg=PA8&dq=genocide+political+economic+groups+soviet+union#PPA8,M1}} |
The convention was passed to outlaw actions similar to [[the Holocaust]] by [[Nazi Germany]] during [[World War II]]. The first draft of the Convention included political killings, but the [[Soviet Union|USSR]]<ref>{{cite book |author=Robert Gellately & Ben Kiernan |title=The Specter of Genocide: Mass Murder in Historical Perspective |publisher=Cambridge University Press |location=Cambridge, UK |year=2003 |isbn=0-521-52750-3 | pages= 267 |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=Ay76mYBLU3sC&pg=PA267&dq=where+Stalin+was+presumably+anxious+to+avoid+his+purges+being+subjected+to+genocidal+scrutiny&ie=ISO-8859-1}}</ref> along with some other nations would not accept that actions against groups identified as holding similar political opinions or social status would constitute genocide,<ref>{{cite book |author=Staub, Ervin |title=The Roots of Evil: The Origins of Genocide and Other Group Violence |publisher=Cambridge University Press |location=Cambridge, UK |pages= 8|isbn=0-521-42214-0 |url= http://books.google.com/books?id=29u-vt_KgGEC&pg=PA8&lpg=PA8&dq=genocide+political+economic+groups+soviet+union#PPA8,M1}}</ref> so these stipulations were subsequently removed in a political and diplomatic compromise. |
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[[Treaty#Reservations|Provisos]] granting [[immunity from prosecution (international law)|immunity from prosecution]] for genocide without its consent were made by Bahrain, Bangladesh, India, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, the United States, Vietnam, Yemen, and [[Yugoslavia]].<ref>Prevent Genocide International: [http://www.preventgenocide.org/law/convention/reservations/ Declarations and Reservations to the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide]</ref><ref>United Nations Treaty Collection: [http://treaties.un.org/Pages/ViewDetails.aspx?src=TREATY&mtdsg_no=IV-1&chapter=4&lang=en Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121020233944/http://treaties.un.org/Pages/ViewDetails.aspx?src=TREATY&mtdsg_no=IV-1&chapter=4&lang=en |date=20 October 2012 }}, STATUS AS AT: 01-10-2011 07:22:22 EDT</ref> Prior to |
[[Treaty#Reservations|Provisos]] granting [[immunity from prosecution (international law)|immunity from prosecution]] for genocide without its consent were made by Bahrain, Bangladesh, India, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, the United States, Vietnam, Yemen, and [[Yugoslavia]].<ref>Prevent Genocide International: [http://www.preventgenocide.org/law/convention/reservations/ Declarations and Reservations to the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide]</ref><ref>United Nations Treaty Collection: [http://treaties.un.org/Pages/ViewDetails.aspx?src=TREATY&mtdsg_no=IV-1&chapter=4&lang=en Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121020233944/http://treaties.un.org/Pages/ViewDetails.aspx?src=TREATY&mtdsg_no=IV-1&chapter=4&lang=en |date=20 October 2012 }}, STATUS AS AT: 01-10-2011 07:22:22 EDT</ref> Prior to the [[United States Senate]]'s ratification of the convention, Senator [[William Proxmire]] spoke in favor of the treaty to the Senate every day it was in session between 1967 and 1986. |
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==References== |
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==Further reading== |
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* Henham, Ralph J.; Chalfont, Paul; Behrens, Paul (Editors 2007). ''The criminal law of genocide: international, comparative and contextual aspects'', Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., {{ISBN|0-7546-4898-2}}, {{ISBN|978-0-7546-4898-7}} [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=oBpEVAY0SqQC&pg=PA98&dq=genocide+ad+hoc#PPA98,M1 p. 98] |
* Henham, Ralph J.; Chalfont, Paul; Behrens, Paul (Editors 2007). ''The criminal law of genocide: international, comparative and contextual aspects'', Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., {{ISBN|0-7546-4898-2}}, {{ISBN|978-0-7546-4898-7}} [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=oBpEVAY0SqQC&pg=PA98&dq=genocide+ad+hoc#PPA98,M1 p. 98] |
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* [http://legal.un.org/avl/ha/cppcg/cppcg.html Introductory note] by [[William Schabas]] and [http://legal.un.org/avl/ha/cppcg/cppcg.html procedural history note] on the Genocide Convention in the [http://legal.un.org/avl/historicarchives.html Historic Archives of the United Nations Audiovisual Library of International Law] |
* [http://legal.un.org/avl/ha/cppcg/cppcg.html Introductory note] by [[William Schabas]] and [http://legal.un.org/avl/ha/cppcg/cppcg.html procedural history note] on the Genocide Convention in the [http://legal.un.org/avl/historicarchives.html Historic Archives of the United Nations Audiovisual Library of International Law] |
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