AMERICAN LEGACY OF GUILT OVER THE GENOCIDE IN RWANDA AND DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO.
Genocide is a saddening word in its description. The word did not exist before the year 1944. Raphael Lemkin, a Jewish lawyer, describes it as an intended and a coordinated plan of different actions such as killing, causing serious bodily or mental harm or imposing measures intended to prevent birth within a group with the aim of destructing essential foundations of life of a national, racial or ethnical group. (Funk, T. Marcus (2010) page 1) .According to 1948 United Nations Convention on the prevention and punishment of the crime of Genocide article 2; genocide is an act done with the intention of destroying in ...