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Oxford Languages via Google: the deliberate killing of a large number of people from a particular nation or ethnic group with the aim of destroying that nation
by mindslight 4y ago
Oxford Languages via Google: the deliberate killing of a large number of people from a particular nation or ethnic group with the aim of destroying that nation or group
Dictionary.com: the deliberate and systematic extermination of a national, racial, political, or cultural group
Merriam Webster: the deliberate and systematic destruction of a racial, political, or cultural group
Would you care to find me a source with a definition that doesn't apply?
- celu 4y agoIsn't it more in the interest of conquering rather than exterminate and destroy? If Ukraine were to surrender, I don't think Russia would continue to kill them all.
- mopsi 4y agoGenocide is a part of that. People capable of leading a country (top politicians, lawyers, academics, businessmen, military leaders, etc) must be murdered so that there is no-one to lead the opposition to Russian rule. After WW2, former leadership of countries occupied by the Soviet Union was methodically exterminated the same way. After people capable of leading a nation are murdered and prohibitions of cultural practices are placed on the remaining, they begin to lose their group identity (language, religion, etc) until they cease to exist as an independent entity. Many Native American tribes disappeared this way, for example. They weren't murdered to the last person. Instead, they were put into conditions that lead to their irreversible decline.
- yucky 4y agoSo we committed genocide against the Iraqi's, right?