On December 9, 1948, the United Nations General Assembly adopted
the Convention on the "Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide".
According to the definition put forth by this Convention, Genocide "means
any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or
in part, a national, ethnical, 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 on 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."
The Convention went on to further state that "the following acts shall
be punishable:
a) Genocide;
b) Conspiracy to commit genocide;
c) Direct and public incitement to commit genocide;
d) Attempt to commit genocide;
e) Complicity in genocide."
The definition was adopted along with criteria for punishable acts because
the General Assembly of the United Nations was/is of the opinion that genocide
is a matter of world concern because it's practice imperils world safety.
Malcolm X Grassroots Movement
view on Genocide and Black People in the US.
The Malcolm X Grassroots Movement understands that from the time we
were bought here forcibly from our Motherland, Afrika, until now, the United
States of America has engaged in genocidal practices against Afrikan people
calculated to bring about the destruction of our population, in whole or
in part. Some glaring examples of these genocidal practices are as
follows:
a) Tuskegee, Alabama: From the 1940's until the early 1970's,
over 600 Black men were purposely injected with the venereal disease Syphillis,
supposedly to monitor the effects of the disease, by the Alabama Institute
of Health, with full knowledge of the National Centers for Disease Control.
Neither the men nor their families were told what they were injected with.
b) The Counter-Intelligence Program (COINTELPRO). The Federal
Bureau of Investigation (FBI), a United States government agency, initiated
this program to destroy our peoples' legitimate desire for freedom during
the Civil Rights and Black Power movements. Over 30 members of the
Black Panther Party alone were killed as a result of this program, and
hundreds of Black activists across the country were jailed.
c) White terrorists gangs, such as the KKK, Nazi Skinheads and
LAPD, have increased in size and activity during the last 30 years, and
the federal government has aided these groups in many instances.
In fact, several police departments, prisons, penitentiaries, and military
bases report big membership in these groups.
In addition to the AIDS crisis, the "war on drugs" (which is really
a drug war on Black people), police killings, inadequate education and
sub-standard health care, more than enough evidence exists to prove the
government of the United States of America guilty of the crime of genocide
against Afrikan people.
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