Genocide

thumb|The Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler (here pictured in 1938) titled himself [[Führer and ruled Germany from 1933 to 1945.]]

thumb|link=Warsaw Ghetto boy|The Holocaust heavily influences the popular understanding of genocide, as [[mass killing of innocent people based on their ethnic identity.]]

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A pogrom is a violent riot incited with the aim of massacring or expelling an ethnic or religious group, usually applied to attacks on Jews. The term entered the English language from Russian to describe late 19th- and early 20th-century attacks on Jews in the Russian Empire (mostly within the Pale of Settlement). Retrospectively, similar attacks against Jews which occurred in other times and places were renamed pogroms. Contemporarily, the word is also used to describe publicly sanctioned purgative attacks against non-Jewish groups. The characteristics of a pogrom vary widely, depending on th

Nazi death camps established to systematically murder

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1998 international treaty establishing the International Criminal Court

purposeful destruction of the culture and value system of an ethnic group

armed group that conducts extrajudicial killings

Ethnocide is the extermination or destruction of ethnic identities. Bartolomé Clavero differentiates ethnocide from genocide by stating that "Genocide kills people while ethnocide kills social cultures through the killing of individual souls". According to Martin Shaw, ethnocide is a core part of physically violent genocide. Some substitute cultural genocide for ethnocide, and other argue the distinction between ethnicity and culture. Cultural genocide and ethnocide have been used in different contexts. While the terms "ethnocide" and "ethnic cleansing" are similar, the intentions of their use

forced march of prisoners of war or other captives or deportees in which individuals are left to die along the way

thumb|Illustration from Phillip Medhurst Collection depicting Joshua fighting Amalek (Exodus 17).|alt=|upright=1.3 Amalek (; ) was a nation described in the Hebrew Bible as a staunch enemy of the Israelites. The name "Amalek" can refer to the nation's founder, a grandson of Esau; his descendants, the Amalekites; or the territories of Amalek, which they inhabited.

Democide, or populicide, refers to "the intentional killing of an unarmed or disarmed person by government agents acting in their authoritative capacity and pursuant to government policy or high command". The term, coined by Holocaust historian and statistics expert R. J. Rummel in his book Death by Government, has been described by renowned Holocaust historian Yehuda Bauer as a better term than genocide to refer to certain types of mass killing. According to Rummel, this definition covers a wide range of deaths, including forced labor and concentration camp victims, extrajudicial summary kill

separatist conflict in the region of West Papua

adoption of a different religion or irreligion under duress

Gendercide or Gender-related killing is the systematic murder of members of a specific gender. The term is related to the general concepts of assault and murder against victims due to their gender, with violence against men and women being problems which are dealt with by human rights organizations. The term 'gendercide' is similar to the term 'genocide' because gendercide is a form of mass murder; however, the perpetrators of gendercide solely target members of one gender. Politico-military frameworks have historically inflicted militant-governed divisions between femicide and androcide; gend

thumb|The city of Ypres during [[World War I]] Urbicide is a term which describes the deliberate wrecking or "killing" of a city, by direct or indirect means. It literally translates as "city-killing" (Latin urbs 'city' + Latin occido 'to kill'). The term was initially used by urban planners and architects to describe 20th-century practices of urban redevelopment in the United States. Writers like Ada Louise Huxtable and Marshall Berman highlighted the impacts of aggressive redevelopment on the urban social experience.

attempt to deny or minimize statements of the scale and severity of an incidence of genocide

genocide of native inhabitants of a region

type of war in which the goal is the complete annihilation of a state, a people or an ethnic minority

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mens rea for the crime of genocide

Type of theoretical bioweapon that aims to harm only or primarily people of specific ethnicities or genotypes

incidents with a genocidal component but which are committed on a smaller scale when compared to genocides

crime under international law

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Hebrew-language word used in the Tanakh

Eliticide or elitocide is "the killing of the leadership, the educated, and the clergy of a group." It is usually carried out during the beginning of a genocide to cripple a possible resistance movement against its perpetrators. Eliticide occurred in the Armenian genocide, the German–Soviet occupation of Poland, the Cambodian genocide, the Isaaq genocide, Bolshevik Red Terror in Russia and instances of eliticide during the Yugoslav Wars. The term was first used in 1992 by British reporter Michael Nicholson to describe the Bijeljina massacre in Bosnia and Herzegovina: during the Bosnian War, lo

eliminating groups of people for political reasons

practice of forcefully taking children from their parents and placing them for adoption

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any act or actions that works toward averting future genocides

treatment of starvation as a crime under international law

education about patterns and trends in the phenomenon of genocide and/or about the causes, nature and impact of particular instances of genocide

hate speech incitement technique

genocide of Amerindian peoples of the United States

Scholarly and international legal definitions of genocide

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