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we are a conservative encyclopedia and do not need to accuse the Bible of genocide given the negative implications of that term
Genocide is the killing of a large number of people because they belong to a certain ethnicity or religion.
'''Genocide''' involves the calculated targeting and killing of a specific ethnic group.
20th century examples include:
*1916-1917: The Turkish genocide of the Armenians
*1939-1945: The Holocaust
*1979-1981: The Khmer Rouge in Cambodia
*1991-1995: The former Yugoslavia, involving the killing of Serbian Muslims
*1995: Hutu genocide of the Tutsi population in Rwanda
A current example involves the events in the [[Darfur]] region of [[Sudan]].