Genocide’s legal definition includes preventing procreation of a targeted group

Evidence

The term “genocide” was coined by the jurist Rafael Lemkin as part of an effort to learn from the experience of the Holocaust and to develop an international legal consensus about certain kinds of systematic atrocities. In 1948 the term was formally adopted in the Geneva conventions, and the act of genocide was prohibited. All contracting parties, which included the NATO nations, agreed that “it is a crime under international law which they undertake to prevent and to punish.” Genocide was specifically defined as acts committed to “destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group, as such.” Such acts include killing, torture, and efforts to prevent the procreation and regeneration of the targeted people. — Michael A. Sells, The Bridge Betrayed, 106

Categorization

• DEFINE: The UN definition explicitly folds anti-procreation measures into genocide—directly covering the rape-as-gynocide strategy.

Related

• Genocide targets a group as an entity, not individuals (similarity 0.81)
• Genocide law depends on reified bounded groups that postmodern theory unsettles (similarity 0.80)
• Lemkin coined ‘genocide’ from Greek and Latin roots in 1944 (similarity 0.80)
• Genocide scholars resist widening the term to include killings lacking clear group-destruction intent. (similarity 0.79)
• The genocide convention aimed to avoid equating all mass destruction with the Holocaust (similarity 0.79)
• Genocide extends ethnic cleansing by exterminating rather than just removing a group (similarity 0.79)
• Legally defined genocide excludes political groups though early drafts included them (similarity 0.78)