genocide
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See also génocide
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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 Ancient Greek γένος (génos), “‘race, kind’”) or Latin gēns (“‘tribe, clan’”), + -cide.
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- IPA: /ˈʤɛnəsaid/
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genocide (countable and uncountable; plural genocides)
- The systematic killing of substantial numbers of people on the basis of ethnicity, religion, political opinion, social status, or other particularity.
- Acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group.
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systematic killing of substantial numbers of people
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acts committed with intent to destroy a group
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