genocidal

Seeking group extinction

Genocidal describes actions, policies, or intent aimed at destroying a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group.

The word applies both to actual mass killing and to rhetoric or planning that points toward such destruction: genocidal violence, genocidal regime, genocidal intent.

It can describe campaigns that destroy a group's culture or capacity to survive even without direct killing.

atrocity

massacre

Large-scale unlawful killing

exterminationComplete destruction of a group
slaughterKilling for meat
ethnic cleansingSystematic removal of populations

mass murder · annihilation · pogrom · Holocaust · killing fields · death camps · eradication · Darfur · Holodomor · gas chambers

intent

deliberate

Consciously chosen, not accidental

systematicFollowing ordered procedures
premeditatedPlanned before acting
calculatedFigured out mathematically

orchestrated · intentional · planned · targeted · state-sponsored · coordinated · organized · methodical · ideological · dehumanizing

legal

crime against humanity

Systematic attack on civilians

tribunalJudicial decision-making body
ICCGlobal justice body
NurembergGerman trial city

Hague · prosecution · conviction · international law · war crimes · indictment · accountability · justice · reparations · complicity

prevention

intervention

Purposeful involvement to change course

early warningAlert before event occurs
peacekeepingPreventing or ending conflict
sanctionsPunitive international restrictions

never again · remembrance · memorial · survivor testimony · documentation · witness · recognition · denial · revisionism · education

genocidal

massacre

deliberate

crime against humanity

intervention

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