Acknowledge the Gaza Genocide
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We must recognize the atrocities being committed in Gaza as Genocide. Article 2 of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide is clear:
“In the present Convention, genocide means any [emphasis added]of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part [emphasis added], 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 its 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.”
There is little argument and ample evidence that Israel’s actions against the people of Gaza in particular, and Palestine as whole, constitute the term genocide. Israel’s onslaught on Gaza over the years and the indiscriminate killings (Article 2a) and the terrorization of children, the young and the old (mental harm) with the constant bombardment, bulldozers, and drones (Article 2b), the media has been apt at hiding the horrific effects of the blockade – the deliberate infliction of condition of life calculated to bring about physical destruction in whole or in part (Article 2c).
According to Article 3 of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, persons committing genocide or complicity in genocide shall be punished “whether they are constitutionally responsible rulers, public officials or private individuals.”
Sir, at every turn, genocide has been ignored only to be acknowledged after the fact. As Secretary General of the United Nations, you are obliged to put a stop to the ongoing genocide and punish the perpetrators. If the call to duty, the voice of conscience, and the voices of the signatories to this petition is not heeded, then it is incumbent upon you to resign from your post.
"When spider webs unite, they can tie up a lion."
To:
Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General of the United Nations
Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General of the United Nations
Acknowledge the Gaza Genocide
Sincerely,
[Your name]
[Your name]
Petition for Ban Ki-moon "Acknowledge the Gaza Genocide"
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