Genocide is violence that targets individuals because of their membership of a group and aims at the destruction of a people.

2025年1月31日 · Genocide, the deliberate and systematic destruction of a group of people because of their ethnicity, nationality, religion, or race. The term was derived from the Greek genos (‘race,’ ‘tribe,’ or ‘nation’) and the Latin cide (‘killing’).

2024年9月25日 · “Genocide” is an internationally recognized crime. The term has a specific legal definition. It refers to acts committed with the intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group. The word “genocide” was created by the Polish-Jewish lawyer, Raphael Lemkin.

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: Forcibly...

2009年10月14日 · Genocide is a term used to describe violence against members of a national, ethnic, racial or religious group with the intent to destroy the entire group. The word came into general usage only...

2016年3月13日 · The meaning of GENOCIDE is the deliberate and systematic destruction of a racial, political, or cultural group.

The legal term “genocide” refers to certain acts committed with the intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group. Genocide is an international crime, according to the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (1948).

2010年8月27日 · Genocide is understood by most to be the gravest crime against humanity. It is defined as a mass extermination of a particular group of people - exemplified by the efforts of the Nazis to...

genocide , Deliberate and systematic destruction of a racial, religious, political, or ethnic group. The term was coined by Raphael Lemkin, a Polish-born jurist who served as an adviser to the U.S. Department of War during World War II, to describe the premeditated effort to destroy a population (see Holocaust).

The word "genocide" was made up by Raphael Lemkin, a Polish Jew, in 1944.It combined the words genos (Greek for "family, tribe or race") and -cide (from the Latin occidere, "to kill"). [2]In 1933 Lemkin spoke at a League of Nations conference on international criminal law in Madrid.He delivered an essay called the Crime of Barbarity. On 11 August 1933, a group of Assyrians [3] …