A good overview can be found in Diane F. Orentlicher, “Genocide,” in Crimes of War: What the Public Should Know, edited by Roy Gutman and David Rieff (New York: W. W. Norton and Co., 1999). Only one in five of the criteria of genocide in the Genocide Convention of 1948 are concerned with direct killing – “eighty per cent of the legal definition of genocide thus devolves upon nonlethal policies and activities.” See Ward Churchill, “Forbidding the ‘G-Word’: Holocaust Denial as Judicial Doctrine in Canada,” Other Voices 2 (February 2000), available at http://dept.english.upenn.edu/~ov/2.1/churchill/denial.html, 26/10/00.

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