Definition of genocide
: the deliberate and systematic destruction of a racial, political, or cultural group
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Spanish friar Bartolomé de las Casas wrote a series of journals in 1542 about the religious persecution and genocide of native peoples by King Philip and the Aragorn dynasty of Spain.
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Jolie first found Cambodia still recovering from the genocide inflicted by the Khmer Rouge regime, which led to the deaths of nearly a quarter of the population from 1975 to 1979.
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The legislation seeks to criminalize suggesting that the nation played a role in the Nazi genocide.
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The American-Cambodian activist wrote the eponymous memoir, recounting her experience in Cambodia during the Khmer Rouge genocide, that Jolie's film is based on.
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The United Nations even said earlier this month that Facebook played a role in exacerbating the genocide of the Rohingya people in Myanmar.
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But what’s clear in Myanmar is that the government sees social media as an instrument for propaganda and inciting violence—and that non-government actors are also using Facebook to advance a genocide.
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The killing in 1994 of Rwanda’s president, Juvénal Habyarimana, set off Africa’s worst genocide.
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Jim Jones used fear and words to influence 900 people to kill themselves drinking Koolaid, Adolph Hitler used words to influence millions to create genocide.
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: the deliberate killing of people who belong to a particular racial, political, or cultural group
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legal Definition of genocide
: acts committed with intent to partially or wholly destroy a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group;
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: the crime of committing such an act
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