The systematic killing of a racial or cultural group; as, the Nazi genocide of Jews left few in Germany or Poland after World War II.
(Derived from genos (race) and cide (to kill). A term created by Raphael Lemkin in the mid-1940s. It refers to the planned, systematic extermination of an entire ethnic, national, racial, or religious group. Most genocides in the 20th and 21st century have had a strong religious component. The murder of about 200,000 Muslims by Serbian Orthodox Christians during the 1990s is the most serious religiously-motivated genocide in recent years. Rwanda is an exception.
The 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide defines genocide as "acts committed with the intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group." (Note that defendant Dusko Tadic is not charged with genocide.) The indictment of July 25, 1995 charges Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic with genocide against Bosnian Croats and Bosnian Muslims.
the deliberate destruction of a racial, political or cultural group.
The deliberate and systematic extermination of a nationality or racial group.
the systematic annihilation of a whole people or nation.
The deliberate, systematic killing of an entire people or nation.
The systematic killing of people because of their race or ethnicity.
Mass murder of a specific nation or race.
the practice of killing all the members of a particular race or national group by another race or national group
Systematic mass destruction of a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group.
A term coined by historian Raphael Lemkin during World War II to describe the systematic and planned destruction of an entire religious, racial, national or ethnic group.
According to the Genocide Convention of 1948, 'genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such: (a) killing members of the group; (b) causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; (c) deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; (d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; and (e) forcibly transferring children of the group to another group. Examples of genocide in relatively recent history include the destruction of the Armenians by the Turks during World War I, the extermination of European Jewry by the Nazis before and during World War II (the Holocaust) and the murder of some 800,000 Tutsis in Rwanda in 1994. In recent times, the term 'ethnic cleansing' has become a 'polite' way of describing some of the genocidal events that have occurred in, for example, Kosovo in the former Yugoslavia and East Timor, once part of Indonesia.
Extermination of an entire people.
a conspiracy aimed at the total destruction of a group and thus requires a concerted plan of action
a deliberate and organized massacre of people in an attempt to exterminate a race
a suddenly catastrophic episode in which a relatively large number of humans are killed by other humans, in a relatively short period of time, for racist reasons
Term created after World War II to describe the systematic murder of an entire political, cultural, or religious group. The Nazis used the phrases Final Solution, special treatment, and resettlement as euphemisms for genocide.
Deliberate decisions made and actions taken by one nation or group of people in order to exterminate another nation or group.
the system of extermination of an entire race
The deliberate killing of a racial, cultural, or political group.
The systematic killing of a whole people or nation.
A crime defined in international law as acts intended to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group of human beings.
The organized destruction of a group of people because of their race, religion, or ethnicity.
Intention to destroy wholly or in part a religious, ethnic or political group.
Systematic killing of ethnic, religious or national group.
Deliberate, systematic destruction of a racial, cultural, ethnic, or political group.
the mass extermination of human beings, usually a race or nation.
The deliberate and systematic destruction of a racial group.
The systematic and planned extermination of an entire national, racial, political, or ethnic group
Systematic, state-sponsored or encouraged killings of members of a specific, identifiable group.
Mass murder of a racial, national or religious group.
Deliberate extermination of a race or nation
The planned or ordered killing of a racial or cultural group.
The systematic killing of people based on race or ethnicity.
Deliberate decisions and actions made by one nation or group of people in order to eliminate, usually through mass murder, the entirety of another nation or group. The term has also been used to refer to the destruction of the culture of a people, as in cultural genocide.
An extreme form of state-sponsored terrorism when a government seeks to wipe out a minority group within the jurisdiction it controls.