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Line 8: − *1970s-present: The [[abortion]] [[Holocaust]] has killed countless millions.<ref>[http://www.survivors.la/ Survivors]</ref>
Even if you consider this an act of mass murder, survivor's is being hyperbolic by describing it as a genocide; see the definition later in the article. Some other changes, too.
'''Genocide''' involves the calculated targeting and killing of a specific ethnic group, or any huge deliberate killing of civilians carried out as a consequence of government policy. The word "genocide" was coined by Rafael Lemkin in his 1944 book ''Axis Rule in Occupied Europe'' to describe the mass killings of European Jews by the Nazi regime. (See Samantha Power, ''A Problem From Hell.'')
'''Genocide''' involves the calculated targeting and killing of a specific ethnic group, or any huge deliberate killing of civilians with a certain national/ethnic identity, carried out as a consequence of governmental, military, or even private (the Rwandan genocide would be an example of this) policy or goals. The word "genocide" was coined by Rafael Lemkin in his 1944 book ''Axis Rule in Occupied Europe'' to describe the mass killings of European Jews by the Nazi regime. <ref>A Problem From Hell, Samantha Power.</ref>
==20th century genocides==
==20th century genocides==
*1932-1933: The Soviet genocide of the Ukrainians ([[Holodomor]])
*1932-1933: The Soviet genocide of the Ukrainians ([[Holodomor]])
*1939-1945: The Nazi [[Holocaust]]
*1939-1945: The Nazi [[Holocaust]]
*1975 - 1978: The Killing Fields in Cambodia by the Khmer Rouge
*1975 - 1978: The Killing Fields in Cambodia by the Khmer Rouge
*1995: Hutu genocide of the Tutsi population in [[Rwanda]]<ref>http://www.hrw.org/reports/1999/rwanda/</ref>
*1995: Hutu genocide of the Tutsi population in [[Rwanda]]<ref>http://www.hrw.org/reports/1999/rwanda/</ref>