Genocide

The first draft of the Convention included political killings, but these provisions were removed in a political and diplomatic compromise following objections from some countries, including the USSR, a permanent security council member. The USSR argued that the Convention's definition should follow the etymology of the term, and may have feared greater international scrutiny of its own Great Purge. Other nations feared that including political groups in the definition would invite international intervention in domestic politics. However leading genocide scholar William Schabas states: “Rigorous examination of the travaux fails to confirm a popular impression in the literature that the opposition to inclusion of political genocide was some Soviet machination. The Soviet views were also shared by a number of other States for whom it is difficult to establish any geographic or social common denominator: Lebanon, Sweden, Brazil, Peru, Venezuela, the Philippines, the Dominican Republic, Iran, Egypt, Belgium, and Uruguay. The exclusion of political groups was in fact originally promoted by a non-governmental organization, the World Jewish Congress, and it corresponded to Raphael Lemkin’s vision of the nature of the crime of genocide.”

Question: Which provision was initially included in the first write-up of the Convention and then removed?
Answer: political killings

Question: What is one of the countries that objected to the inclusion of political killings in the early version of the Convention?
Answer: USSR

Question: What atrocity motivated a self-serving USSR to object to the provision of political killings drafted into the Convention?
Answer: its own Great Purge

Question: What was the primary concern of other nations who objected to including political groups in the definition of genocide?
Answer: international intervention in domestic politics

Question: Which distinguished academic of genocide highlighted several other countries opposed to including political genocide in the Convention?
Answer: William Schabas

Question: Which provision was not initially included in the first write-up of the Convention and then removed?

Question: What is one of the countries that supported the inclusion of political killings in the early version of the Convention?

Question: Which distinguished academic of genocide highlighted several other countries supporting including political genocide in the Convention?

Question: What atrocity motivated a self-serving USSR to support the provision of political killings drafted into the Convention?

Question: Which provision was initially included in the first write-up of the Jewish Congress and then removed?

Question: What is one of the countries that objected to the inclusion of political killings in the early version of the World Jewish Congress?

Question: What atrocity motivated a self-serving USSR to object to the provision of machination drafted into the Convention?

Question: What was the primary concern of other nations who objected to including political groups in the definition of examination?

Question: Which distinguished academic of genocide highlighted several other countries opposed to including examination in the Convention?