Genocide (Noun)
Meaning
Systematic killing of a racial or cultural group.
Classification
Nouns denoting acts or actions.
Examples
- The genocide of six million Jews during the Holocaust is one of the darkest periods in human history.
- The United Nations has been criticized for its failure to prevent the genocide in Rwanda in the 1990s.
- The term "genocide" was coined to describe the systematic extermination of a particular racial or cultural group, such as the Armenian Genocide by the Ottoman Empire.
- Historians continue to debate the extent to which the massacres of indigenous peoples in the Americas constitute a genocide.
- The government has been accused of committing genocide against the Rohingya minority, with thousands of people forced to flee their homes and seek refuge abroad.