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gen·o·cide

 (jĕn′ə-sīd′)
n.
The systematic and widespread extermination or attempted extermination of a national, racial, religious, or ethnic group.

[Greek genos, race; see genə- in Indo-European roots + -cide.]

gen′o·cid′al (-sīd′l) adj.
gen′o·cid′al·ly adv.
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Translations
genocidan

genocidal

[ˌdʒenəʊˈsaɪdl] ADJgenocida
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genocidal

[ˌdʒɛnəˈsaɪdəl] adj [crime] → génocide
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genocidal

adj war, campaignvölkermordähnlich; genocidal crimeVölkermord- or Genozidverbrechen nt
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In this way, the founding genocidal impulse of the RS continues to persecute survivors.
The UN Fact Finding Mission last week issued a statement urging the international community to financially isolate Myanmar's military for its involvement in the genocidal campaign against the Rohingya people, said the Arakan Rohingya National Organisation, Burmese Rohingya Organisation UK and Burma Human Rights Network in a joint statement.
Summary: Tehran [Iran], May 20 (ANI): Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif on Monday lashed out at the United States and said that "economic terrorism and genocidal taunts won't end Iran."
Mr Abiodun Olanrewaju, the university's Public Relation Officer, who conducted journalists round the disputed land and the dam within the school's premises, on Wednesday, said the poisoning of the dam was genocidal.
In the afternoon, Kagame, who led the rebels who chased the genocidal killers out of Rwanda and has been in power ever since, will preside over a ceremony at the main football stadium in the capital.
Deputy DC-Cam director So Farina told The Post on Monday that this is the third training conference for university professors in Cambodia, with a focus on expanding their capacity to contextualise the genocidal regime during the Khmer Rouge and pass this knowledge on to students.
The Destruction of the Indigenous Peoples of Hispano America: A Genocidal Encounter
An Australian performance artist will be buried alive in a container under a city street for three days next month to make a statement about Tasmania's "genocidal" colonial past under the British while an art festival goes on above his head.
He highlighted the importance of holding the murderous Myanmar regime accountable for its genocidal crimes.
The MWL said in a statement today that this atrocious act comes within the framework of war crimes and crimes against humanity and contradicts the simplest human principles and international laws, calling on the international community to urgently assume its responsibilities in the face of the genocidal war on Syrian territories, protect civilians, and press towards a solution based on the principles of the Geneva Declaration 1 and United Nations Security Council Resolution 2254.
Zionism is, as Dr Gideon Polya put it, "genocidal racism in awful theory and appalling, intentional genocidal practice".
Now that Otto Warmbier is dead, it's time to ask what, if anything, might've been done to save the innocent young American from being detained and tortured by North Korea's genocidal regime.