Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (click here)
Article I
The Contracting Parties confirm that genocide, whether committed in time of peace or in time of war, is a crime under international law which they undertake to prevent and to punish.
We also know the facilitator. The G-20 of 2017 was obviously the beginning of the triad of power to cause the demise of the Kurdish people in northern Syria. The USA, Russia and Turkey. There was no representation of the Kurds.
July 8, 2017President Recep Tayyip (click here) Erdoğan and U.S. President Donald Trump held an unscheduled meeting on July 8 as a part of the G-20 summit in Hamburg.
The two leaders held a nearly half hour meeting before the closing session of the G20 summit, Turkish officials have said without giving more details.
Erdoğan also had a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin on July 8 morning; the two leaders discussed the conflict in Syria and other regional issues.
The two-day summit of world’s 20 major economies (G20) will end later on July 8. President Erdoğan is expected to hold a news conference at the end of the summit.
The summit hosted by Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel had focused on global economy, climate change and the fight against terrorism.
Article II
In the present 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 group to another group.
(as in USA southern border crossers)
Article III
The following acts shall be punishable:
(a) Genocide;
(b) Conspiracy to commit genocide;
(c) Direct and public incitement to commit genocide;
(d) Attempt to commit genocide;
(e) Complicity in genocide.
The United Nations and The Hague need to decide if the Kurds are imposed upon in a way that forces them away from their homeland and if that displacement will result in cultural shifts that destroy the essence of the Kurds in other countries or basically refuge. Are the Kurds now refugees and do they have the right of return because otherwise, their continued life in their homeland would have resulted in genocide.
