Genocide is a foreign term, says Ahmedabad metropolitan magistrate // Text of International Covenant on Genocide, December 9 1948

In her petition challenging the 'clean chit' given by a special investigation team to Narendra Modi and others in the Gulberg Society killingsZakia Jafri had used the expressions "ethnic cleansing" and "genocide". On Thursday, Ahmedabad metropolitan magistrate B J Ganatra dismissed both "foreign terms" as not applicable while rejecting Zakia's petition.

NB - For the benefit of the magistrate, here is the foreign term ethnic cleansing used to describe the plight of Kashmiri Pandits:
And here are the contents of the international convention on the foreign term 'genocide' (ratified by India in 1949)
Here is another foreign term for our judiciary to consider:
SUPERIOR OR COMMAND RESPONSIBILITY

Ganatra also rejected the "larger conspiracy" argument raised by Jafri. Excerpts from his order: "Based on all the witness statements and documents on record, this court has to see whether the Gulberg Society incident was because of a conspiracy by powerful people in the state government or not. And whether, as the complainant says, this can be called 'ethnic cleansing' and 'genocide'. "The court goes into the origin of the expressions and notes that "ethnic cleansing" was first used during the struggle that broke out over the division of Yugoslavia, where people were killed based on community. And "genocide is a Greek and Latin usage which means the killing of people on the basis of race," reads the order, going on to define the term. "For this, we have to see the definition of 'genocide' as per the dictionary.. read more: http://www.indianexpress.com/news/2002-riots-ethnic-cleansing-genocide-are-foreign-terms...-cannot-be-considered/1212232/
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Adopted by Resolution 260 (III) A of the United Nations General Assembly on 9 December 1948.

The Contracting Parties confirm that genocide, whether committed in time of peace or in time of war, is a crime under international law which they undertake to prevent and to punish.
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:
The following acts shall be punishable:
Persons committing genocide or any of the other acts enumerated in Article 3 shall be punished, whether they are constitutionally responsible rulers, public officials or private individuals.
The Contracting Parties undertake to enact, in accordance with their respective Constitutions, the necessary legislation to give effect to the provisions of the present Convention and, in particular, to provide effective penalties for persons guilty of genocide or any of the other acts enumerated in Article 3.
Persons charged with genocide or any of the other acts enumerated in Article 3 shall be tried by a competent tribunal of the State in the territory of which the act was committed, or by such international penal tribunal as may have jurisdiction with respect to those Contracting Parties which shall have accepted its jurisdiction.

Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, 9 December 1948
List of signatory nations (including India)

See also:
Probe larger conspiracy says Zakia Jafri's counsel, reminds SIT of SC order regarding 2002 riots
Public Appeal by R.B. SREEKUMAR, FORMER DGP, GUJARAT
Ishrat Jahan link (that never was): Untold story of a J-K encounter
Modi says Congress committed 'sin' of partition // The Non-politics of the RSS

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