Raphael Lemkin Centenary Conference
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Raphael Lemkin Centenary Conference
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.
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 a kosher packed lunch will be provided
1:30-2:30 THE UNITED KINGDOM�S RESPONSE TO THE CRIME OF GENOCIDE
Chair: Bernard F. Hamilton, President, Leo Kuper Foundation,
Catherine Nettleton, Co-ordinator for War Crimes Issues, 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: Bernard F. Hamilton, President, Leo Kuper Foundation,
Professor Kevin P. Clements, Secretary General, International Alert.
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:
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Fax: 44 (0) 20 73 41 00 50
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"The disease of criminality if left unchecked is contagious."
- Raphael Lemkin, 1945
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