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Genocide — Génocide Un génocide est l extermination physique, intentionnelle, systématique et programmée d un groupe ou d une partie d un groupe en raison de ses origines ethniques, religieuses ou sociales[1]. Sommaire 1 Étymologie 2 Définition … Wikipédia en Français
GÉNOCIDE — Inventée par le professeur américain d’origine polonaise R. Lemkin qui, pour ce faire, n’a tenu aucun compte des règles élémentaires de l’étymologie, l’expression gréco latine de «génocide» cherche à introduire pour les groupes entiers d’humains… … Encyclopédie Universelle
Genocide — Genocide literally means the murder of an entire race. Raphael Lemkin coined the term in reference to the Ottoman Turkish massacres of the Armenians during World War I. Following the Nazi atrocities against the Jews in World War II, the… … Historical Dictionary of the Kurds
genocide — geno·cide / je nə ˌsīd/ n: acts committed with intent to partially or wholly destroy a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group; also: the crime of committing such an act Merriam Webster’s Dictionary of Law. Merriam Webster. 1996. genocide … Law dictionary
genocide — gen o*cide n. The systematic killing of a racial or cultural group; as, the Nazi genocide of Jews left few in Germany or Poland after World War II. Syn: race murder, racial extermination. [WordNet 1.5] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
genocide — 1944, apparently coined by Polish born U.S. jurist Raphael Lemkin (1900 1959) in his work Axis Rule in Occupied Europe [p.19], in reference to Nazi extermination of Jews, lit. killing a tribe, from Gk. genos race, kind (see GENUS (Cf. genus)) +… … Etymology dictionary
genocide — [n] mass extermination annihilation, carnage, decimation, ethnic cleansing, holocaust, massacre, mass execution, mass murder, race extermination, slaughter; concept 252 … New thesaurus
genocide — ► NOUN ▪ the deliberate killing of a very large number of people from a particular ethnic group or nation. DERIVATIVES genocidal adjective. ORIGIN from Greek genos race + CIDE(Cf. ↑ cide) … English terms dictionary
genocide — [jen′ə sīd΄] n. [< Gr genos, race, kind (see GENUS) + CIDE: first applied to the attempted extermination of the Jews by Nazi Germany] the systematic killing of, or a program of action intended to destroy, a whole national or ethnic group… … English World dictionary
Genocide — This article is about the crime. For other uses, see Genocide (disambiguation). Buchenwald concentration camp was technically not an extermination camp, though it was a site of an extraordinary number of deaths … Wikipedia
Génocide — Un génocide est l extermination physique, intentionnelle, systématique et programmée d un groupe ou d une partie d un groupe en raison de ses origines ethniques, religieuses ou sociales[1]. Sommaire 1 Histoire et étymologie 2 Définition … Wikipédia en Français
