A Look at Cultural Genocide as an International Crime

Communities around the world are made up of groups with specific ethnic, racial, linguistic, religious, and cultural diversity. The crime of cultural anti-genocide includes destroying the culture of these groups. The crime of genocide is committed in accordance with the statute of the International Criminal Court with the intent to destroy all or part of a particular national, ethnic, racial or religious group. Ending discrimination against these groups requires that we support this diversity by promoting and enforcing human rights norms.

The present study is based on descriptive and analytical methods and based on library documents and sources, and in this regard, international regulations and Documents related to the crime of cultural genocide have been reviewed.

Findings and results of this study indicate that physical and biological measures are not the only way to destroy a group, but measures to cultural destruction of a group can be considered as cultural genocide. While a group may disappear without its members being killed. Cultural desegregation is the loss of the existential meaning of the culture of groups, and this through the total or partial destruction of groups and, in short, through the disappearance of tangible cultural heritage including books, art objects, religious monuments, cultural sites such as cities, schools, libraries, mosques , Churches, monasteries and other centers of worship and spiritual and intangible such as political and social institutions, language, art, literature, culture, spiritual traditions, customs, national feelings, religion and dignity of individuals belonging groups.