Genocide - Definitions

Other definitions of genocide

“A form of one-sided mass killing in which a state or other authority intends to destroy a group, as that group and membership in it are defined by the perpetrator.”

Frank Chalk and Kurt Jonassohn, The History and Sociology of Genocide, 1990

“The mass killing of substantial numbers of human beings… under conditions of the essential defenselessness and helplessness of the victims.”

Israel Charny in George Andreopoulos (ed), Genocide: Conceptual and Historical Dimensions, 1994

“Genocide is not extreme war or conflict; it is extreme exclusion. Exclusion may start with name-calling, but may end with a group of people being excluded from a society to the point where they are destroyed.”

James M. Smith speaking to the London Assembly, January 2006

 

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