Whitaker Report on Genocide, 1985

SOURCE Prevent Genocide International. Available from http://www.preventgenocide.org/prevent/UNdocs/whitaker/.

INTRODUCTION There have been two major United Nation documents on genocide, the Ruhashyankiko report of 1978 and the Whitaker report of 1985. Both are major studies of genocide from the standpoint of the Sub-Commission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities (presently the Sub-Commission on Promotion and Protection of Human Rights), with the second report intended as a corrective to the former. Due to political pressure,...

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