AJC Quiz Crimes against humanity, October 1, 2008

62 years ago, on October 1, 1946, the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg handed down its judgment of Nazi war criminals, sentencing 12 to death. Learn more about this subject of particular interest to the Jewish people in this week's Jewish IQ Quiz on crimes against humanity.

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Answer the following questions.
Question 1: What Nazi war criminal committed suicide the night before he was to be hanged at Nuremberg?*
Question 2: Who issued the passport used by Adolph Eichmann after World War II to enter Argentina, where he lived until Israeli capture in 1960?*
Question 3: About how many Rwandans died during the three-month peak of the genocide from April to July 1994?*
Question 4: The ongoing fugitive status of Ratko Mladic, the Serbian general responsible for the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, continues to block Serbia's entry to what institution?*
Question 5: What country is a party to the International Criminal Court?*
Question 6: From 1993-2003, what country claimed "universal jurisdiction" for crimes against humanity, resulting in diplomatic tensions when foreign leaders, including Ariel Sharon, were sued for alleged crimes elsewhere?*
Question 7: The official term "crime against humanity" is often believed to have originated in a 1915 diplomatic cable, in which the Triple Entente accused what country of such crimes?*
Question 8: How many UN member states are not signatories to the Geneva Conventions?*
Question 9: Who convened the 1899 peace conference at the Hague, where the resulting convention codified many of the laws of battle for the first time?*
Question 10: The UN defines apartheid as a crime against humanity. According to the ICC, what criterion must a government meet in order to commit the crime of apartheid?*
Bonus: Former Liberian President Charles Taylor is currently being tried by the UN Special Court for Sierra Leone. He had returned to Liberia to start a civil war after being imprisoned where?*
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