If the Genocide Convention were proposed today, President Bush apparently would fight to kill it.

The drafters of the 1948 Genocide Convention considered the use of the term, but dropped it from their consideration.

India was meant to have enacted legislation like this after 1959, when it signed up to the 1948 Genocide Convention.

After the minimum 20 countries became parties to the Genocide Convention, it came into force as international law on 12 January 1951.

The Genocide Convention was not ratified by the United States until 1988.

"The problem is that the Genocide Convention was never applied in an international court," said an expert at the tribunal.

The Genocide Convention was first submitted to the Senate by President Truman in 1950.

If true, it would clearly fall within the ambit of the Genocide Convention".

"Genocide" is defined in the same terms as in the Genocide Convention 1948.

Furthermore, such acts could also fall within the meaning of the Genocide Convention".