Genocide

Genocide is the intentional destruction of a people[lower-alpha 1] in whole or in part. In 1948, the United Nations Genocide Convention defined genocide as any of five "acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group." These five acts were: killing members of the group, causing them serious bodily or mental harm, imposing living conditions intended to destroy the group, preventing births, and forcibly transferring children out of the group. Victims are targeted because of their real or perceived membership of a group, not randomly.[1][2]

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18th /19th/early 20th century genocides
Dzungar Circassian Black War Moriori California Selk'nam Herero and Namaqua
Late Ottoman genocides (1910s–1920s)
Greek Sayfo Armenian
World War II (1939–1945)
The Holocaust Romani Poles Serbs Croats and Muslims
Cold War (1940s–1991)
Bangladesh Ikiza East Timor Cambodian Guatemalan Gukurahundi Isaaq
Contemporary ethno-religious genocides
Bosnian Rwandan Effacer le tableau Darfur Yazidi Iraqi Turkmen Uyghur Rohingya
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Anfal campaign Anti-communist mass killings Indonesia 1965–66 Atrocities in the Congo Free State Compulsory sterilization Democide Ethnic cleansing Ethnocide Forced assimilation Mass killings under communist regimes Holodomor / genocide question Massacres of Hutus during the First Congo War Predictions of a genocide in Ethiopia Vendée debate Raphael Lemkin
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The Political Instability Task Force estimated that 43 genocides occurred between 1956 and 2016, resulting in about 50 million deaths.[3] The UNHCR estimated that a further 50 million had been displaced by such episodes of violence up to 2008.[3] Genocide, especially large-scale genocide, is widely considered to signify the epitome of human evil.[4] As a label, it is contentious because it is moralizing,[5] and has been used as a type of moral category since the late 1990s.[6]