Genocide
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"By current theory genocide or genosorption strongly favoring the aggressor need take place only once every few generations to direct evolution." --E. O. Wilson in the 2000 edition of Sociobiology: The New Synthesis |
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Genocide is the deliberate and systematic extermination of an ethnic or national group.
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Etymology
Polish lawyer Raphael Lemkin coined the term genocide in his 1944 book Axis Rule in Occupied Europe combining the Greek word γένος ("race, people") with the Latin suffix -caedo ("act of killing").
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See also
- -cide
- Murder
- Mass murder
- German genocide
- Autogenocide
- Countervalue
- Crimes against humanity
- Ethnic cleansing
- Forensic osteology
- Gendercide
- Holocaust
- Holodomor
- Infanticide
- List of genocides
- Local extinction
- Mass murder
- Genocidal rape
- Policide
- Social cleansing
- Utilitarian genocide
- Command responsibility
- Crime against humanity
- Human rights
- International humanitarian law
- International law
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