What phrase is the best definition of genocide?

Answer 1

Genocide is the deliberate and systematic destruction of (or attempt to destroy) an ethnic, racial, religious or national group.

Genocide - to kill off an entire race or ethnic group. The actual crime is mass murder committed in an attempt to do so.

One of the most famous genocides in history was the killing of Jewish people during World War II.
The systematic killing of an entire group of people, usually an ethnic group.
The definition of the word genocide is "the deliberate killing of a large group of people, especially those of a particular ethnic group or nation."
Genocide is the killing of an entire specific group of people. This can mean a particular race, religion etc.

Answer 2

The Contracting Parties confirm that genocide, whether committed in time of peace or in time of war, is a crime under international law which they undertake to prevent and to punish. 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: * (a) Killing members of the group; * (b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; * (c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; * (d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; * (e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.

Answer 3

It sounds as if you are looking for the etymological sense of the word. From that point of view the meaning is the killing of a people or race. However, the term was created in 1944 as to denote what the Nazis were doing to the Jews at the time. In practice, a campaign of deliberate mass murder may be called genocide even if it does not result in the killing of every member of the target group.

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Genocide is from the Greek word for "race" and the Latin word for "kill".

It is the systematic killing (extermination) of a specific group due to their nationality, race, religion, or culture. Genocide normally accompanies forced relocation when one ethnic group is in conflict with another over the same territory or resources.

Etymologically, it means killing a race. However, the term was coined in 1944 by Raphael Lemkin for what the Nazis were doing to the Jews at that time.

Answer 4

genocide- the deliberate and systematic destruction in whole or in part of a ethnic, racial or religonal group

Answer 5

"the deliberate and systematic extermination of a national, racial, political, or cultural group."

Answer 6

Genocide is the deliberate and systematic destruction, in whole or in part, of an ethnic, racial, religious, or national group.

Answer 7

The deliberate and systematic destruction of a racial, religious or cultural group.

Answer 8

The Oxford Advanced Dictionary version of "genocide" is
'the deliberate extermination of a race of people' .
This was exactly what Hitler was doing to the Jews

Answer 9

mass murder