- Genocide - Wikipedia
Genocide is the destruction of a people through targeted violence The term genocide was coined by Polish-Jewish lawyer Raphael Lemkin in the early 1940s
- Genocide | Definition, Examples, Facts | Britannica
Genocide, the deliberate and systematic destruction of a group of people because of their ethnicity, nationality, religion, or race The term was derived from the Greek genos (‘race,’ ‘tribe,’ or ‘nation’) and the Latin cide (‘killing’)
- Definitions of Genocide and Related Crimes | United Nations
In the present Convention, 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: Forcibly
- What is Genocide? - United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
The legal term “genocide” refers to certain acts committed with the intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group Genocide is an international crime, according to the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (1948)
- Genocide - HISTORY
Genocide is a term used to describe violence against members of a national, ethnic, racial or religious group with the intent to destroy the entire group
- What Is Genocide? | CFR Education
What Is Genocide? Introduced as a legal term after the Holocaust, genocide describes one of humanity’s worst crimes But nearly a century later, the world is still debating what it means and
- What is Genocide? - Ohio
The term “genocide” was coined by Raphäel Lemkin in 1944 in his book Axis Rule in Occupied Europe Genocide was first recognized as a crime under international law in 1946 by the United Nations General Assembly
- Defining Genocide After World War II - The National WWII Museum
The concept of genocide has fundamentally altered international law, history, and global geopolitics forever, transforming the way we understand mass violence in the modern world
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