genocide

Genocide is a composed concept of people and murder/homicide. It involves the extermination of the population of a country, deliberate extermination of an ethnic or religious group. The concept of genocide was developed by Raphael (Rafal) Lemkin in Axis Rule in Occupied Europe. By "genocide" we mean the destruction of a nation or of an ethnic group. After World War II, in 1948, the UN adopted the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, which defines genocide as:
(a) Killing members of the group;
(b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
(c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
(d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
(e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.
Examples of genocide: Spaniards in the Americas in the 15th century, Europeans' conquest of slaves in Africa, the British genocide in Tasmania beginning in 1804, the Ottoman, Turkish genocide of 300,000 Christian Armenians in Constantinople and surrounding areas in 1895-1896, the German genocide of the Herero people in Namibia 1904-1908. The Ottoman Turkish genocide of Christian Armenians and Kurds during the First World War, the Nazis' racist genocide of the Jews 1941-1945 and also on the Roma people, Soviet genocide in the North Caucasus 1944, and Indonesia's genocide in the former Dutch colony of West Papua in 1963. Also, the Indonesian genocide in East Timor from 1975. The genocide in Rwanda the 1994 and the massacre at Srebrenica in Bosnia, 1995.

See also: Folkemord.