The drafters of the Genocide Convention took great care to limit the scope of the definition of genocide. The convention arose in response to the Nazi atrocities of World War II and their prosecution, and was explicitly designed to capture the uniqueness of those particular crimes. The drafters were concerned in part that an overly expansive definition would dilute the effectiveness of the convention and might lead to governments abstaining from joining the convention. In the Study on the Draft Convention, the drafters comment: Genocide is the deliberate destruction of a human group. This literal definition must be rigidly adhered to; otherwise there is a danger of the idea of genocide being expanded indefinitely to include the law of war, the right of people's to self-definition, the protection of minorities, the respect of human rights, etc.