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Genocide
What Is it?
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Methodical destruction of an ethnic, racial or religious group, accomplished through the extermination of individuals and the annulment of cultural values and documents.
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Etymology
Etymology: combining the prefix Geno-, from the Greek race or tribe, with the suffix -cidio, from the Latin kill.
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Recognized
genocide of the Armenians of the Ottoman Empire, the genocide of the Jews of Europe and that of the Tutsis
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How
At the orders of Talaat Pasha, an estimated 800,000 to 1.2 million Armenians were sent on death marches to the Syrian Desert in 1915 and 1916. Driven forward by paramilitary escorts, the deportees were deprived of food and water and subjected to robbery, rape, and massacres.
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Why
the Young Turks wanted to create an homogeneous Turkish state in Anatolia (racial descrimination of a nationalist goverment)
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Forgotten
Massacre of the Kurds. Massacre of East Timor. Burundi, Darfur, Balkans and Patagonia. People without justice. They urge the UN to recognize its own «extermination».
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