Russia's 'gay propaganda' law causes outrage abroad but finds support at home

[Zeke129]

[QUOTE=katbug;41731798]No.... It really doesn't.

In whole or in part means destroying the groups defined as such; Homosexuals are neither a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, so the article does not affect them in any way.[/QUOTE]

Which is problematic, [url=http://www.stanfordlawreview.org/sites/default/files/articles/Lisson.pdf]but I'm not the first one to point it out[/url]. (PDF link)

[quote]Significantly, however, not all social units are protected by the Genocide
Convention. Article 2 limits the crime to acts committed with the intent to
destroy “national, ethnical, racial or religious” groups.3
Other entities, such as
those defined by political parties, economic class, or sexual preference, are
unprotected. Born out of the political realities at the time of drafting, this
closed list of protected groups presents one of the most serious and heavily
debated limitations of the Genocide Convention.4
Moreover, the limitation
makes the way in which the four enumerated groups are defined a matter of
fundamental importance. If genocide is the destruction of only certain groups,
then the threshold question in any potential prosecution is whether the targeted
group falls within any of the protected categories.[/quote]

[Missing User]

[QUOTE=Zeke129;41733224]Which is problematic, [url=http://www.stanfordlawreview.org/sites/default/files/articles/Lisson.pdf]but I'm not the first one to point it out[/url]. (PDF link)[/QUOTE]

Something else that the convention fails to cover is people of a mental state/condition; It's perfectly legal to kill people en masse with mental conditions, and that's why eugenics wasn't considered genocide.