Genocide is the destruction of a people through targeted violence. The concept of genocide was invented by Polish-Jewish lawyer Raphael Lemkin in the early 1940s; Lemkin viewed it broadly as the replacement of the victims' culture with that of their oppressor.
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’).
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).
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.