WORLD HISTORY

WORLD WAR II

DECOLONIZATION PHASE

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
What is the definition of a genocide?
A
A widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or thing.
B
The deliberate killing of a large group of people, especially those of a particular ethnic group or nation.
C
Prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against someone of a different race based on the belief that one’s own race is superior.
D
Preconceived opinion that is not based on reason or actual experience.
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -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, ethnical, racial or religious group."

Detailed explanation-2: -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.

Detailed explanation-3: -The definition contained in Article II of the Convention describes genocide as a crime committed with the intent to destroy a national, ethnic, racial or religious group, in whole or in part. It does not include political groups or so called “cultural genocide”.

Detailed explanation-4: -genocide, the deliberate and systematic destruction of a group of people because of their ethnicity, nationality, religion, or race.

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