In 1948 the newly formed United Nations adopted a convention on the prevention and punishment of what crime?

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In 1948 the newly formed United Nations adopted a convention (law) on the prevention and punishment of genocide-any violent or deadly act undertaken with the "intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group . . ." The convention was adopted in an attempt to prevent events like the Holocaust from happening.

In 1948 the Newly Formed United Nations Adopted a Convention