Difference between revisions of "Genocide"

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'''Genocide''' involves the calculated targeting and killing of a specific ethnic group.  
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Genocide is a racial cleansing, or a killing of people because they belong to a certain culture or religious group.
  
20th century examples include:
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Example:  
  
1916-1917: The Turkish genocide of the Armenians
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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
 
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]].
 

Revision as of 06:47, March 20, 2007

Genocide is a racial cleansing, or a killing of people because they belong to a certain culture or religious group.

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: