Senator Robert Torricelli has introduced legislation regarding crimes against the humanity. The document, in particular, suggests recognizing the 15th anniversary of U.S. implementation of the Genocide Convention as a “principled stand” by the American people towards inadmissibility of such crimes in future. “The lessons of the Holocaust, the Armenian Genocide, the genocides in Cambodia and Rwanda will be used to help to prevent future genocides,” the document states. It should be noted the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, first approved in 1948, confirms that genocide is a crime under international law and defines genocide as actions committed to destroy a national, ethnical, racial or religious group.
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