Definition of genocide Genocide

/ʤɛˈnʌsajˌd/ - [jenusayd] - gen•o•cide

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What does genocide mean?

WordNet

Noun Plural: genocides
genocide - systematic killing of a racial or cultural group
		race murder, racial extermination
		putting to death, kill, killing the destruction of an enemy plane or ship or tank or missile; "the pilot reported two kills during the mission"

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Wiktionary

genocide (Noun)
The systematic killing of substantial numbers of people on the basis of ethnicity, religion, political opinion, social status , or other particularity.
genocide (Noun)
Acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or a significant portion of, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group.

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genocide
The systematic murder of a certain people or race.

Wikipedia

Genocide is the crime of killing many people who are all part of one ethnic group, religious group, or some sort of similar group, and trying to destroy that group. Genocide is done usually by a group, such as a government, or military group, not by one person or a small number of people. Usually, the motivation for genocide is based on political reasons.

The word genocide was made up by Raphael Lemkin, a Polish Jew, in 1944, from the words "genos" (Greek for family, tribe or race) and "-cide" (from the Latin "occidere", to kill). It was first used to the Nazi Holocaust, when many groups, including Jews and others, were killed.

Ustashe of Croatia are another example of genocidial horror. About a million of Serbs were killed in WWII in Ustashe concentration camps. Methods used were disgusting even to German Nazis.

Another example of genocide was when about a million of the Tutsi group of people of Rwanda were killed along with Hutus who were against the genocide in 1994.

In 1933 Lemkin made a speech to the Legal Council of the League of Nations conference on international criminal law in Madrid, for which he prepared an essay on the "Crime of Barbarity" as a crime against international law. The purpose of the crime, which later evolved into the idea of genocide, was based mostly on the experience of Assyrians massacred in Iraq on 11 August 1933. The event in Iraq reminded him of earlier similar events of the Armenian Genocide during World War I.