postgenocide

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English

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Etymology

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From post- +‎ genocide.

Adjective

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postgenocide (not comparable)

  1. After a genocide.
    • 2009 April 5, Jeffrey Gettleman, “A Wound in the Heart of Africa”, in New York Times[1]:
      According to Gérard Prunier, everything conspired to turn Congo into a kill zone: a dying dictator; the end of the cold war; Western guilt; and a tough, suspicious, postgenocide, Israel-like Rwanda, whose national ethos, simply stated, was Never Again.