WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Genocide is the intentional destruction of a people in whole or in part. Raphael Lemkin coined the term in 1944, combining the Greek word (genos, “race, people") with the Latin suffix-caedo ("act of killing").

Detailed explanation-2: -The definition of Genocide is made up of two elements, the physical element-the acts committed; and the mental element-the intent.

Detailed explanation-3: -Mass Murder: the indiscriminate killing of any person or people by a government. Democide: The murder of any person or people by a government, including genocide, politicide, and mass murder.

Detailed explanation-4: -Genocide is defined in § 1091 and includes violent attacks with the specific intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group. There is Federal jurisdiction if the offense is committed within the United States.

Detailed explanation-5: -Reviewing the legal and the academic history of the usage of the terms genocide and ethnocide, Bartolomé Clavero differentiates them by stating that “Genocide kills people while ethnocide kills social cultures through the killing of individual souls".

Detailed explanation-6: -Killing members of the group. Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group. Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part. Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group. More items