{"id":1797,"date":"2009-01-01T09:04:19","date_gmt":"2009-01-01T13:04:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.journals.law.harvard.edu\/ilj\/site\/?p=1797"},"modified":"2010-09-17T12:01:55","modified_gmt":"2010-09-17T16:01:55","slug":"issue_50-1_mundorff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journals.law.harvard.edu\/ilj\/2009\/01\/issue_50-1_mundorff\/","title":{"rendered":"Other Peoples\u2019 Children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Abstract<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>The  1948 Genocide Convention, Article 2(e) declares that the forcible  transfer of children from a protected group to another group is an act  that amounts to genocide when it is conducted \u201cwith intent to destroy\u201d  the group, \u201cas such,\u201d at least \u201cin part.\u201d Although listed co-equally  with mass killing and forced sterilizations, and despite what appear to  be repeated violations, this provision has received little attention.  This Article lays out the prima facie elements that must be satisfied to  bring a claim of genocidal forcible child transfer. It asserts that a  perpetrator\u2019s mixed intents or benevolent motivations toward the  individual children involved will not absolve the perpetrator when  forcible child transfers amount to genocide. This Article also places  Article 2(e) in historical context by considering the factors that led  to its inclusion in the Genocide Convention, and contextualizes 2(e)  within the emerging international case law on genocide. In addition, by  fully developing the arguments around Article 2(e), this Article  broadens current conceptions of genocide. In particular, it challenges  current doctrine, which limits culpability to purely physical and  biological destruction, by exploring the manner in which forcible child  transfer has cultural effects that destroy protected groups. Finally,  this Article highlights several programs, including the American Indian  boarding school program and Australia\u2019s Aboriginal removal programs, and  argues that these could be considered genocide.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 1948 Genocide Convention, Article 2(e) declares that the forcible transfer of children from a protected group to another group is an act that amounts to genocide when it is conducted \u201cwith intent to destroy\u201d the group, \u201cas such,\u201d at least \u201cin part.\u201d Although listed co-equally with mass killing and forced sterilizations, and despite what appear to be repeated violations, this provision has received little attention. 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