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Genocide definitions include many scholarly and international legal definitions of genocide, [1] a word coined by Raphael Lemkin in 1944. [2] The word is a compound of the ancient Greek word γένος ( génos , "genus", or "kind") and the Latin word caedō ("kill").
According to the Oxford English Dictionary (OED), the word pogrom entered English from Yiddish which borrowed it from Russian.The OED gives two meanings for the word: [6] In Russia, Poland, and some other East European countries in the late 19th and early 20th centuries: an organized massacre aimed at the destruction or annihilation of a body or class of people, esp. one conducted against ...
Genocide is violence that targets individuals because of their membership of a group and aims at the destruction of a people. [a] [1]Raphael Lemkin, who first coined the term, defined genocide as "the destruction of a nation or of an ethnic group" by means such as "the disintegration of [its] political and social institutions, of [its] culture, language, national feelings, religion, and [its ...
[1] [2] This definition covers any murder of any number of persons by any government. [1] [2] Rummel created democide as an extended term to include forms of government murder not covered by genocide. According to Rummel, democide surpassed war as the leading cause of non-natural death in the 20th century. [3] [4]
Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel signing the unconditional surrender of the German Wehrmacht. The term debellatio or "debellation" (Latin 'defeating, or the act of conquering or subduing', literally, 'warring (the enemy) down', from Latin bellum 'war') designates the end of war caused by complete destruction of a hostile state.
Khurbn eyrope (חורבן אײראָפּע) "Destruction of Europe", is the term for the Holocaust in Yiddish. The term uses the word khurbn (colloquially spelled "churban"), a loanword: Hebrew: חֻרְבָּן ḥurbān "destruction".
Days after warning that it couldn't assure diplomats' safety in the event of war, the news of the day is that North Korea is preparing for a missile test on April 10. Another day, another act set ...
It has been defined as "a mode of secluding, and rendering harmless, anything imperilling the religious life of the nation", [4] or "the total destruction of the enemy and his goods at the conclusion of a campaign", [5] or "uncompromising consecration of property and dedication of the property to God without possibility of recall or redemption ...