2006-06-17 16:51:53 · 15 answers · asked by yulka41 1 in News & Events ➔ Media & Journalism
Deliberate and systematic destruction of a racial, political, or cultural group
2006-06-17 16:55:04 · answer #1 · answered by smashingly.smashing 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
When an entire race of people are eliminated or it's attempted to eliminate them. Just as Hitler's attempt to eliminate the Jews, that was Genocide. The Hutu's attempt to eliminate the Tutsi's in Rwanda, that was Genocide.
2006-06-17 16:55:57 · answer #2 · answered by DEATH 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Genocide is defined by the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (CPPCG) Article 2 as "any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group, as such: 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; and forcibly transferring children of the group to another group."
2006-06-17 16:54:41 · answer #3 · answered by jstanotherqwtchic 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Genocide is, by definition, the targeted killing of at least 10% of the population within a short period of time.
2006-06-17 16:57:23 · answer #4 · answered by fly4620 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Genocide is the deliberate and systematic destruction of a racial, political, or cultural group.
2006-06-17 16:58:13 · answer #5 · answered by PasoFino 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
genocide is the killing off of a certain race or ethnic group example the Nazi's killing the Jews
2006-06-17 16:59:38 · answer #6 · answered by brie_pink_silly 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A systematic attempt to annihilate a racial group or nation. The word was first used in 1944.
2006-06-17 16:57:02 · answer #7 · answered by SmartAleck 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genocide
2006-06-17 16:55:10 · answer #8 · answered by sorooros 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
destroying a people on the basis of their genetic make up like Hitler did to the Jews
2006-06-17 16:56:09 · answer #9 · answered by Elizabeth 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the elimination of a group of people in a society
2006-06-17 16:56:30 · answer #10 · answered by theTurkishTitan 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the killing of ppl just to get rid of there religion like what hitler was doing with the jews
2006-06-17 16:55:31 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋