What is the meaning of ethnic genocide?

Answer 1

Genocide is the killing of an entire group of people based on some commonality such as religion or nationality. . Ethnic genocide is the killing of a group of people based on their ethnicity, or racial extraction.

Answer 2

Genocide is - almost by definition - racially (that is, ethically) motivated though there may be other subsidiary motives at work. The Nazi genocide of the Jews was entirely racial. (There was no question of any Jew avoiding the Holocaust by converting to Christianity, for example). Similarly, the Turkish genocide of the Armenians in 1915-17 was racially motivated. For mass murder on other grounds (such as social class) some use the term democide.