South African Apartheid/Genosha

South African Apartheid

In South Africa between 1948-1994 there was a system of legal racial segregation, and a classification of color. If you were African, Asian, or Indian you had your legal rights and citizenship taken away, and you were removed from your home, and forced to live in your "racial communities."

Definition of the crime of Apartheid

Article 7 of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court defines crimes against humanity as:

Article 7

Crimes against humanity

1. For the purpose of this Statute, 'crime against humanity' means any of the following acts when committed as part of a widespread or systematic attack directed against any civilian population, with knowledge of the attack:
   1. Murder;
   2. Extermination;
   3. Enslavement;
   4. Deportation or forcible transfer of population;
   5. Imprisonment or other severe deprivation of physical liberty in violation of fundamental rules of international law;
   6. Torture;
   7. Rape, sexual slavery, enforced prostitution, forced pregnancy, enforced sterilization, or any other form of sexual violence of comparable gravity;
   8. Persecution against any identifiable group or collectivity on political, racial, national, ethnic, cultural, religious, gender as defined in paragraph 3, or other grounds that are universally recognized as impermissible under international law, in connection with any act referred to in this paragraph or any crime within the jurisdiction of the Court;
   9. Enforced disappearance of persons;
   10. The crime of apartheid;
   11. Other inhumane acts of a similar character intentionally causing great suffering, or serious injury to body or to mental or physical health.

Later in Article 7, the crime of apartheid is defined as:

The 'crime of apartheid' means inhumane acts of a character similar to those referred to in paragraph 1, committed in the context of an institutionalised regime of systematic

 -Taken from the wikipedian page on Apartheid.



Genosha

Like its real world counterpart the nation of Africa during the Apartheid gave the outside world a false perception that it was a land of hope and freedom, though in reality it was a nation that segregated, and authorized the torture, and slavery of members of society who were deemed not "normal". At birth a baby was tested for the "X-Gene" the gene that makes mutants who they are, if they test positive for this gene they are immediatly made property of the state, and forced into slavery.