Mike Hosking said the Government has had a good first week
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Mike Hosking said the Government has had a good first week
TVNZ has been trending that way for a while. Some have said it would be more effective to make RNZ a public broadcaster.
It's nice to have something which can spread NZ values (esp in the pacific region & australia) which doesn't involve x factor nz and building/property shows.
One of your sillier posts. I haven't heard anyone claim that the Israelis have beeen practicing genocide since 1948. Ethnic cleansing of some of the territory of modern Israel, certainly. But the label 'genocide' has been applied to the current performance of the IDF n Gaza. It seems to me to meet the UN definition.
There is no question that Hamas are barbarous thugs, and they are certainly a terrorist organisation by any reasonable definition. They killed around a thousand largely innocent people in Israel. The IDF have so far killed around twenty times that number of largely innocent people in Gaza, and the ratio may well be fifty times that number by the time this terrible business is over. Genocide is a fair call.
Does Stephen Joyce want a board position.. there must be a point to writing all these opinion pieces after all this time.
We're talking about the legal criminal definition of the term Genocide as pertains to the Geneva Convention & defined in the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, & ratified by the International Court of Justice.
(Not your online dictionary definition of the word genocide) .
I even wrote Article 2, section C out for you so you didn't have to look it up.
I shouldn't have to explain but under the legal criminal definition, genocide does not have a number, it also covers the destruction of part of a national, racial, ethical, religious group by deliberately withholding the basics necessary for life, e.g. medicines, water, power, food, shelter, hygiene etc.
Genocide was first recognised as a crime under international law in 1946 by the United Nations General Assembly (A/RES/96-I). It was codified as an independent crime in the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (the Genocide Convention). The Convention has been ratified by 153 States (as of April 2022). The International Court of Justice (ICJ) has repeatedly stated that the Convention embodies principles that are part of general customary international law. This means that whether or not States have ratified the Genocide Convention, they are all bound as a matter of law by the principle that genocide is a crime prohibited under international law. The ICJ has also stated that the prohibition of genocide is a peremptory norm of international law (or ius cogens) and consequently, no derogation from it is allowed.
The definition of the crime of genocide as contained in Article II of the Genocide Convention was the result of a negotiating process and reflects the compromise reached among United Nations Member States in 1948 at the time of drafting the Convention. Genocide is defined in the same terms as in the Genocide Convention in the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (Article 6), as well as in the statutes of other international and hybrid jurisdictions. Many States have also criminalized genocide in their domestic law; others have yet to do so.
Definition
Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide
Article II
In the present 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:
- Killing members of the group;
- Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
- Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
- Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
- Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.