The Intentional Destruction of Cultural Heritage as a Genocidal Act and a Crime Against Humanity

Ann Marie Thake · SSRN Working Paper No. 3163108, 2018

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This legal-academic paper maps the relationship between intentional cultural-heritage destruction and the UN Genocide Convention's Article II(e) (forcibly transferring children) and the Rome Statute's war-crimes provisions. It provides the doctrinal framework for applying "cultural genocide" to acts like the Jaffna library burning — situating such destruction alongside Lemkin's original 1944 formulation in *Axis Rule in Occupied Europe*, which explicitly included cultural institutions. Useful for any legal-accountability argumentation.

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