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| − | '''Genocide''' involves the calculated targeting and killing of a specific ethnic group.
| + | Genocide is a racial cleansing, or a killing of people because they belong to a certain culture or religious group. |
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| − | 20th century examples include:
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| − | 1916-1917: The Turkish genocide of the Armenians
| + | Deuteronomy:20:17: But thou shalt utterly destroy them; namely, the Hittites, and the Amorites, the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites; as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee: |
| − | 1939-1945: The Holocaust
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| − | 1979-1981: The Khmer Rouge in Cambodia
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| − | 1991-1995: The former Yugoslavia, involving the killing of Serbian Muslims
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| − | 1995: Hutu genocide of the Tutsi population in Rwanda
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| − | A current example involves the events in the [[Darfur]] region of [[Sudan]].
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