genocide convention

基本解释

The trouble with calling genocide "genocide" while the blood is still spilling is that, under the terms of a UN convention, one is obliged to do something to stop it.
麻烦在于，当屠刀下的鲜血还在横流的时候称这一事件为“种族屠杀”，那么按照联合国有关条款的惯例，就得有人站出来阻止悲剧的继续发生。

"The definition of genocide that is most often used is the official U.N.definition in the Genocide Convention of the late 1940s.
"There is the initial definition by the United Nations when they adopted the genocide convention, which is considered generally authoritative.
A majority of scholars and historians agree that the massacre of an estimated one million Armenians during World War I constitutes genocide as defined by the 1948 United Nations Convention on Genocide.

And the Genocide Convention, quite frankly, has yet to demonstrate any utility of any kind in discouraging genocide or in helping to deal with it once it occurs.
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