Assertion: genocide | /r/CapableOf | take place
Facets:
value: to show that
type: PURPOSE
Source sentences:
text: A 2010 study suggests that a group of Anasazi in the American Southwest were killed in a genocide that took place circa 800 CE.
text: Modern Turkey succeeded the Ottoman Empire in 1923 and denies that a genocide took place.
text: The Roman Catholic Church affirms that genocide took place but states that those who took part in it did so without the permission of the Church.
text: I think that what the concept of genocide does -- and I can absolutely see why Lemkin came up with it -- but what it does is it requires the person claiming that a genocide has taken place to show that the person who did the act intended to destroy a group.
text: As such, the allegation that genocide took place during the Bangladesh Liberation War of 1971 was never investigated by an international tribunal set up under the auspices of the United Nations.[citation needed]
text: Although the Court ruled that genocide had taken place, it decided that Serbia was not responsible under international law.