This Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide defines genocide as "any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group." It was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in December 1948 and entered into force in January 1951.
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