Quiz 1

Question 1

Genocide Convention: Article I

Answer 1

Genocide, whether committed during times of peace or war, is a crime under international law which which they undertake to prevent and punish

Question 2

Genocide Convention: Article II

Answer 2

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 that group (b) causing serious bodily or mental harm (c) deliberately inflicting conditions of life designed to bring about it’s physical destruction (d) imposing measures intended to prevent births (e) forcibly transferring children of the group to another group

Question 3

What groups are covered under the Genocide Convention?

Answer 3

National, Ethnical, Racial, and Religious groups

Question 4

Genocide Convention: Article III

Answer 4

The following acts shall be punishable: (a) Genocide (b) conspiracy to commit Genocide (c) direct public incitement to commit Genocide (d) Attempt to commit Genocide (e) Complicity in Genocide

Question 5

Genocide Convention: Article IV

Answer 5

Those committing genocide, or any acts listed in Article III will be punished regardless of their position or power

Question 6

Define ‘Crimes Against Humanity’

Answer 6

All of the following when committed as part of a widespread or systemic attack directed against any civilian population, with knowledge of the attack:
(a) Murder (b) Extermination (c) Enslavement (d) Deportation or forcible transfer of population (e) Imprisonment or other severe deprivation of physical liberty (f) Torture (g) Rape, sexual slavery, enforced prostitution, forced pregnancy, enforced sterilization (h) persecution against any identifiable group on political, racial, national, ethnic, cultural, religious, gender (i) enforced disappearance of persons (j) apartheid