Genocide is the mass killing of a group of people, as defined by Article 2 of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (CPPCG) 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.”

ORIGIN

The term “genocide” was coined by Raphael Lemkin (1900-1959), a Polish-Jewish legal scholar, in 1943, from the roots γένος genos (Greek for family, tribe or race) and -cide (Latin – occidere – to massacre) in the context of the Jewish Holocaust. Lemkin’s genocide definition was based mainly on the Holocaust and Armenian genocide. It addressed crimes against “national, racial or religious groups”. His definition included not only physical genocide but also acts aimed at destroying the culture and livelihood of the group.

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Genocide is the anihilation of a particular group of people, whether they share a common language, religion or background.

Genocide has been going for thousands of years.

Recent examples are the genocide in Darfur, Rwanda genocide, the Holocaust

Raphael Lemkin, who would later coin the word “genocide,” is born into a Polish Jewish family in 1900 (see source)

earlier examples are the killing of indifenous populations of the Americas i.e. Beothucks

It is the killing of a particular group. Like the Jews. I’m not sure of it’s origin, but it is still happening today. You should do some research about Rwanda.

the deliberate killing of a large group of people, esp. those of a particular ethnic group or nation.

ORIGIN 1940s: from Greek genos ‘race’ + -cide