Genocide is the intentional destruction of an ethnic, national, racial, or religious group.
“It is a failure not only for the United Nations; it is a failure for the international community. And all of us are responsible for this failure ... it is a genocide which has been committed. More than 200,000 people have been killed and the international community is still discussing what ought to be done.”
“Sometimes I have feared that, in some wild paroxysm of rage, the white race, forgetful of the claims of humanity and the precepts of the Christian religion, will proceed to slaughter...”
“Genocide can be hidden for a while with friendly visits, but one day it will be revealed.”
“The lesson of Rwanda is not that every moral panic leads to genocide. It is that every genocide begins with a moral panic.”
“India’s 1971 armed intervention in East Pakistan—undertaken for a mixture of reasons—is widely and fairly regarded as one of the world’s most successful cases of humanitarian intervention against genocide. Indeed, India in effect applied what we would now call the ‘responsibility to protect’ (R2P) principle, and applied it well.”
“In the European century that began in the 1840s from Engels's article of 1849 down to the death of Hitler, everyone who advocated genocide called himself a socialist, and no exception has been found.”
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Genocide is the intentional destruction of an ethnic, national, racial, or religious group.
For list of genocides, see List of genocides
Genocide may also refer to:
Genocide (1968 film), a Japanese film
Genocide (1981 film), an American documentary
"Genocide" (The World at War), a 1974 TV episode
"Genocide" (The Shield), a 2008 TV episode
Genocide (1989 video game), by Zoom
Genocide (MUD), a 1992 text-based online game
Genocide route, a run in Undertale
Genocide (novel), a 1997 Doctor Who novel by Paul Leonard
The Genocides, a 1965 novel by Thomas M. Disch
Genocide: Its Political Use in the Twentieth Century, a 1981 book by Leo Kuper
Genocide (band), later called Repulsion
Genocide (album), by Judas Priest, 2000
Genocide, a 2005 EP by Upon a Burning Body
"Genocide", a 2003 song by Deathstars from the album Synthetic Generation
"Genocide", a 2015 song by Dr. Dre from the album Compton
"Genocide", a 2006 song by Hammerfall from the album Threshold
"Genocide", a 1976 song by Judas Priest from the album Sad Wings of Destiny
"Genocide", a 1994 song by The Offspring from the album Smash
"Genocide", a 2003 song by Psyclon Nine from the album Divine Infekt
"Genocide", a 2009 song by Suicide Silence from the album No Time to Bleed
"Genocide (The Killing of the Buffalo)", a 1980 song by Thin Lizzy from the album Chinatown
Genocide (comics), a fictional character
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