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Genocide is a racial cleansing, or a killing of people because they belong to a certain culture or religious group.
Genocide involves the calculated targeting and killing of a specific ethnic group.
Example:
Biblical Example:
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:
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:
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