Genocide
Genocide
Genocide (/ˈdʒɛnəˌsaɪd/; from Greek: γένος, genos, "race, kind"; and Latin: cide, "killing") is a term used to describe the intentional, systematic destruction, in whole or in part, of an ethnic, racial, religious, or national group.
Etymology
The term "genocide" was coined by Polish lawyer Raphael Lemkin in 1944 in his book Axis Rule in Occupied Europe. It consists of the Greek prefix genos, meaning race or tribe, and the Latin suffix cide, meaning killing.
Definition
The United Nations defines genocide as any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such: killing members of the group; causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; and forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.
Related Terms
- Ethnocide: The deliberate and systematic destruction of the culture of an ethnic group.
- Holocaust: A genocide in which approximately six million Jews were killed by Adolf Hitler's Nazi regime and its collaborators.
- War crime: Serious violations of the laws and customs applicable in international armed conflict.
- Crimes against humanity: Certain acts that are purposely committed as part of a widespread or systematic attack directed against any civilian population or an identifiable part of a population.
See Also
- List of genocides by death toll
- Genocides in history
- Criticism of Holocaust denial
- Rwandan genocide
- Armenian genocide
External links
- Medical encyclopedia article on Genocide
- Wikipedia's article - Genocide
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