Worlwide genocides
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The United Nations defines genocide as "any means of the following acts committed with the intent to destroy in whole or in part, a national, ethical, racial or religious group as such: a) killing members of the group, b) causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; c) Deliberately inflicting of the group conditions of life calculated to bring about it's physical destruction in whole or in part, d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group, e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group." These five points clearly state the boundaries for which a crime against humanity can occur. Of the many atrocities that have occurred in nations such as Bosnia, Kosovo, Rwanda, Cambodia, Burundi, U.S.A, Canada, and Bangladesh, very few exactly fit all components of the definition. Some countries that have actually experienced true genocide are often not labeled as such because the event failed to meet all of the standards outlined by the United Nations. Thus, defining an event as a genocide is very difficult.
Bosnia, however, was a country that suffered extensive genocide. The Serb and Bosnian army wanted to ethnically cleanse all non-Serbs from Bosnia. They used systematic persecution and widespread torture...