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Genocide Watch: Monitoring and Research
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The Genocide Monitoring Chart |
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A large part of facilitating genocide prevention is
a system of following up precursors and unfolding human rights violations |
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The Genocide Prevention Center collaborates
with neutral observers within and near the areas of devastation who
are able to confirm first hand reports of massive abuse or prepartions
for such abuse. |
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Using technical, non-political, and non-religious
based standards, the center will search for trends toward genocide
among the 25-50 nations being tracked. The standards, definitions,
and indicators are available at all times to the public on the Genocide
Prevention Center’s web site at www.improvetheworld.org. |
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The Center uses state of the art technology
to monitor and prevent genocide |
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The satellite imaging division is designed to take photographs
of massive human rights violations as they unfold. This type of technology
has never before been employed by a nonprofit humanitarian organization,
because it has only been recently declassified. |
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As on-the-ground violation reports come in and are confirmed
as probable indicators of genocide, a satellite image will be commissioned
of the area |
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THE FOUR TIERS OF GENOCIDE |
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FIRST TIER — FULL SCALE GENOCIDE |
The Center recognizes the 1949 UN Convention on Genocide’s
definition as "full-scale" genocide. Any of the following
acts with the intent to destroy, in whole or part, a national, ethnic,
racial or religious group. Also included is the category of ideological
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SECOND TIER — DE FACTO MILITARY GENOCIDE |
The Second tier includes intentional military targeting of civilian
population centers and/or when multiple human rights violations take
a predominant toll on human lives of a specific unarmed public ethnicity,
race, religious or idological group. |
THIRD TIER — MULTIPLE HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS |
When a combination of several human rights abuses from the "fourth
tier" are present, thus indicating a potential danger of massive
human rights abuse or genocide. |
FOURTH TIER — ISOLATED HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES |
When one or a few civil and/or human rights violations are present
without posing a serious immediate physical threat.
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