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Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide

The 1948 United Nations convention that defines genocide in international law.

Publisher: United Nations Office of Legal Affairs
Tradition: International law
Accessed: 2026-10-06

Citation

Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, adopted by the United Nations General Assembly, December 9, 1948, Audiovisual Library of International Law, United Nations, accessed October 6, 2026.

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The Canaanite conquest was genocideThe conquest texts give wrongdoing, not ethnicity, as their reason, and use the exaggerated idiom of ancient war reports. That narrows the charge but leaves hard questions.