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Genocide is made up of the Latin word gens or gentis, meaning birth, stock, race, and the Latin word cidium (French: "cide"), meaning killing. Together it means literally "Race Killing."

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What role do religion and race play in genocide?

Does your religion teach you that people from other cultures are evil? That attitude is the root of genocide.


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What the root word gen mean?

In Latin the root gen- means (a) people, ethnic group, race, a breed. In English we have the words generation and genocide from this root. Note also ius gentium - the law of nations - international law.


What does the root word gen- mean?

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What latin root word means the killing of a race or people?

The Latin root word that means the killing of a race or people is "geno," derived from the Latin word "genus" meaning race or kind. An example word using this root is genocide, which refers to the deliberate and systematic destruction of a racial, ethnic, or national group.


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Genocide Genocide


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What are facts about genocide?

Genocide is the deliberate and systematic destruction, in whole or in part, of an ethnic, racial, religious, or national group.The term "genocide" was coined by Raphael Lemkin (1900-1959), a Polish-Jewish scholar, 1944, firstly from Latin "gens, gentis" meaning "birth, race, stock, kind" or the Greek root "genos" with the same meaning; secondly from Latin -cidium (cutting, killing) via French -cide.Genocide does not necessarily have to mean killing or massacring by murder or military action. Genocide can come in various forms including: starvation, deplacement, serious bodily or mental harm, lowering quality of life to the point where the culture is unable to sustain itself and grow, imposing measures to prevent birth within the group or forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.Some examples of genocide include: transatlantic slave trade, genocide of the Native Americans, the Herero Genocide, the Armenian Genocide, the Great Famine/ Ukrainian Genocide, Rape of Nanking, the Holocaust, Mao Tse-Tung's Cultural Revolution, the Cambodian Genocide, Genocide in Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Rwandan Genocide, and the Genocide in Darfur.


In Afghanistan genocide when did it stop the genocide?

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Who is the deliberate and systematic killing of an entire people?

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What does the genocide symbol represent?

The genocide symbol represents genocide. No surprises there.