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To the Editors in Chief

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 March 2017

Jeannette Smyth
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American Journal of International Law , Volume 97 , Issue 4 , October 2003 , pp. 899 - 900
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References

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2 Helen Fein, Genocide by Attrition 1939-1993&—The Warsaw Ghetto, Cambodia, and Sudan: Links Between Human Rights, Health, and Mass Death, in 2 HEALTH AND HUMAN RIGHTS 2,10-45 (1997). Among elements of the crime of genocide by attrition, Fein notes forced relocation; deprivation of populations; epidemics of nutrition-related disease as well as malaria, tuberculosis, typhus, meningitis; rape, castration, prevention of marriage; coercive assimilation of children; contamination of water supply; withholding of fuel; overwork, and overcrowding. Fein notes that 700,000 Jews, or 13.7% of the dead, died of hunger and diseases attributable to conditions in Nazi ghettoes, id. at 12; of the estimated 2.2 million Cambodian dead, an estimated one quarter died of starvation and one quarter of disease, id. at 19; of 1.3 million southern Sudanese dead, many died of famine or disease preventable by available medication. Some 75,000 Dinka children were sold into slavery in the north, as proscribed by the UN convention on genocide. See Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, Dec. 9,1948, Art. 2 (e), 78 UNTS 227 (entered into force Jan. 12, 1951).

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6 CRAIG ETGHESON, RETRIBUTION AND RECONCILIATION: HEALING WHAT AILS CAMBODIA (unpublished project report to the U.S. Institute of Peace, 2002).