2.3.3 "A national, ethnic, racial or religious group".As a label, it is contentious because it is moralizing, and has been used as a type of moral category since the late 1990s. Genocide is widely considered to signify the epitome of human evil. The UNHCR estimated that a further 50 million had been displaced by such episodes of violence up to 2008. The Political Instability Task Force estimated that 43 genocides occurred between 19, resulting in about 50 million deaths. Victims are targeted because of their real or perceived membership of a group, not randomly. In 1948, the United Nations Genocide Convention defined genocide as any of five "acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group, as such." These five acts were: killing members of the group, causing them serious bodily or mental harm, imposing living conditions intended to destroy the group, preventing births, and forcibly transferring children out of the group. Raphael Lemkin coined the term in 1944, combining the Greek word γένος ( genos, "race, people") with the Latin suffix -caedo ("act of killing"). Genocide is the intentional destruction of a people, usually defined as an ethnic, national, racial, or religious group. Massacres of Hutus during the First Congo War (1996–1997)Įthno-religious genocides in contemporary era.Genocide of Muslims and Croats by the Chetniks.For other uses, see Genocide (disambiguation).
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