Genocide (film)
WordNet

noun


(1)   Systematic killing of a racial or cultural group
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Etymology


Coined in 1943 by Raphael Lemkin (1900–1959), a Polish-Jewish legal scholar, to describe what the Turkish government (ca 1915-18) perpetrated against the Armenian people. From the stem of or , + .

Noun



  1. The systematic killing of substantial numbers of people on the basis of ethnicity, religion, political opinion, social status, or other particularity.
  2. Acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group.

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