Genocide - Wikipedia Genocide is violence that targets individuals because of their membership of a group and aims at the destruction of a people
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)
What is Genocide? - Ohio 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 transferring children of the group to another group
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 The word came into general usage only
What Is Genocide - Understanding The Meaning - Genos Center Foundation The genocide includes the mass murder of up to one million Tutsi people between April 1994 and July 1994 by extremist Hutu army officers in Rwanda known as the Rwanda Genocide When the genocide occurred, there were mainly three ethnic groups in Rwanda, including Tutsi, Hutu, and Twa
genocide | Legal Information Institute Genocide is one of the greatest crimes under international law, often called the "crime of crimes" after the Nuremburg Trials
What Is Genocide? | Facing History Ourselves Coined as a moral and legal concept and codified as an international crime in the aftermath of World War II and the Holocaust, genocide is among the most heinous offenses that a government, military, or other organized group can commit