Dr. Felipe Nicolau Pimentel Alamino, Professor of the Undergraduate Law Program at the ALFA Education Law School, gave an interview to the Podemos Foundation about the definition of Genocide, in view of the social conflicts existing in several countries, he brought clarity about the context of typification of Genocide.

In an interview, the Professor said: Genocide was only classified in 1948, by the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, in the wake of the horrors experienced in the Second World War, and is considered as acts committed with the intention of destroying, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group, which may occur with the murder of members of this group; serious harm to the physical or mental integrity of members of the group; the intentional submission of the group to conditions of existence capable of causing its physical destruction (total or partial); the adoption of measures aimed at preventing births within the group or, finally, the forced transfer of children from the group to another group. It is important to emphasize that this definition was subsequently followed in international trials carried out, both in the Tribunals to judge crimes committed in the former Yugoslavia, and to judge crimes committed in Rwanda (both in the 1990s) and, later, became part of the Rome Statute, responsible for the creation of the International Criminal Court, in its article 6.

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