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Genocide   /dʒˈɛnəsˌaɪd/   Listen
Genocide

noun
1.
Systematic killing of a racial or cultural group.  Synonyms: race murder, racial extermination.






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"Genocide" Quotes from Famous Books



... hysterically resolved to end what it considered the blueskin menace for once and for all. There were parallels to such unreasoning frenzy even in the ancient history of Earth. A word still remained in the dictionaries referring to it. Genocide. ...
— Pariah Planet • Murray Leinster

... countries. The children of these exiles later formed a rebel group, the Rwandan Patriotic Front and began a civil war in 1990. The war, along with several political and economic upheavals, exacerbated ethnic tensions culminating in April 1994 in the genocide of roughly 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus. The Tutsi rebels defeated the Hutu regime and ended the killing in July 1994, but approximately 2 million Hutu refugees - many fearing Tutsi retribution ...
— The 2002 CIA World Factbook • US Government

... "Nonsense! Genocide is defined as the extermination of a race of sapient beings. These are fur-bearing animals. It's up to you and Ernst ...
— Little Fuzzy • Henry Beam Piper



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