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FW: For moderation - Genocide Conference London

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"Elisa Mason" <[log in to unmask]>

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Fri, 8 Sep 2000 13:55:38 +0100

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Sent: Friday, September 08, 2000 12:09 PM
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Subject: For moderation - Genocide Conference London


The Leo Kuper Foundation is pleased to announce

The Raphael Lemkin Centenary Conference

Wednesday October 18, 2000

Georgian Board Room
Imperial War Museum
Lambeth Road
London SE1 6HZ


09:00-10:00             Tour of the Holocaust Exhibition
Please note that although our tour lasts 60 minutes, visitors are
spending an average of between one and a half and four hours in the
Exhibition.
James Taylor of the Holocaust Exhibition staff will see conferees into
the Exhibition and be present during coffee to informally answer any
questions.

10:00-10:30             Coffee

10:30-11:00             RAPHAEL LEMKIN’S CONTRIBUTION
                        TO THE ERADICATION OF GENOCIDE

Chair: Bernard F. Hamilton, President  Leo Kuper Foundation,

Jim Fussell, Director, Prevent Genocide International.


11:00-12:30             THE LESSONS TO BE LEARNED FROM RWANDA

Chair:  Oona King MP, Chair, All Party Parliamentary Group
on Rwanda, the Great Lakes and the Prevention of Genocide,

Dr. Peter Hall, Chair, Physicians for Human Rights-UK,

Linda Melvern, Author, A People Betrayed:
the Role of the West in Rwanda's Genocide.

12:30-1:30              Lunch   (Kosher packed lunch provided)


1:30-2:30               THE UNITED KINGDOM’S RESPONSE
                        TO THE CRIME OF GENOCIDE

Chair:   Bernard F. Hamilton, President,  Leo Kuper Foundation,

Samantha Purdy, Head of War Crimes Section,
United Nations Dept., Foreign and Commonwealth Office.


2:30-4:00               DEVELOPMENTS IN THE JURISPRUDENCE
                        OF THE CRIME OF GENOCIDE

Chair:  Ben Whitaker, Former Rapporteur on Genocide,
UN Commission on Human Rights,

Professor William Schabas, Director, Irish Centre for Human Rights,
National University of Ireland,

Dr. Payam Akhavan Legal Officer, Prosecutor’s Office of the
International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia.


4:00-4:30               Tea


4:30-5:45               THE PREVENTION OF GENOCIDE

Chair:   Gregory H. Stanton, Executive Director,  Genocide Watch,

Professor Kevin P. Clements, Secretary General, International Alert,

Stephen D. Smith, Executive Director, The Aegis Trust.

5:45-6:00               Closing Remarks

                                *****

A Note on Professor Lemkin’s work in London culminating in
the Nuremberg Indictment of October 18, 1945

by Bernard F. Hamilton,  President,  The Leo Kuper Foundation


Professor Raphael Lemkin was born in Poland on June 24, 1900 and died in
the United States of America on August 12, 1959. His short life was
almost entirely devoted to outlawing the crime of genocide, which he
originally referred to as the crime of barbarity during a League of
Nations conference in 1933. In his 1944 book Axis Rule in Occupied
Europe, written before the death camps were known about, Lemkin analysed
the laws of the Nazi Reich and demonstrated that they were designed to
facilitate the destruction of peoples. Lemkin coined a word for the
attempt to destroy a people -genocide. Following the creation of the
United Nations, Lemkin  worked hard, and often single-handedly, to
establish the 1946 Declaration and the 1948 Convention on Genocide and
have them adopted by the General Assembly. This latter success is
recorded on his gravestone.

Raphael Lemkin worked on the International Military Tribunal’s
indictment of suspected Nazi criminals in London during the six weeks
ending October 18, 1945. It was on that day that the word genocide first
appeared in a public document. In count 3 of the indictment, dealing
with War Crimes, it was alleged that the defendants "conducted
deliberate and systematic genocide - namely, the extermination of racial
and national groups…"

It is not known where Lemkin worked during his stay in London, as few
detailed records on such matters have survived the passage of time. The
British War Crimes investigation was carried out with the assistance of
the Military Judge Advocate General. It is possible therefore that
Lemkin worked in that office which was at 6, Spring Gardens, Cockspur
Street, London SW1. As an American Government official, Lemkin might
have stayed at one of the locations provided for the use of the USA.
Justice Jackson and some of his team stayed at the Claridges Hotel in
June 1945.

The official papers on the British War Crimes Investigative effort are
now at the Public Record Office at Kew.

                                *****

Booking Form:

To      The Leo Kuper Foundation
159 Cromwell Road
London SW5 0TQ

Tel:    44 (0) 20 73 73 73 32
Fax:    44 (0) 20 73 41 00 50
E-Mail:   [log in to unmask]


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I apply to attend the Lemkin Centenary Conference and enclose a cheque
made payable to "LKF" for forty-eight pounds sterling (£48.00).    [   ]
OR
I am a student and enclose a cheque for thirty pounds sterling
(£30.00).* [   ]

Signed:………………………………………………………………………..

Please note that the Georgian Board Room can only accommodate a limited
number of people, and so early booking is advised.
* A limited number of student places are available on a first come first
served basis.
There is no registration on site. Admission is by ticket only.
Bernard F. Hamilton             NO geNOcide
President                       Tel:    44 (0) 20 73 73 73 32
Leo Kuper Foundation            Fax:    44 (0) 20 73 41 00 50

"The disease of criminality if left unchecked is contagious."
- Raphael Lemkin, 1945



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