Genocide

Genocide is defined as violence targeting individuals due to their group membership, aiming to destroy a people. Raphael Lemkin's 1944 book Axis Rule in Occupied Europe coined the term, defining genocide as the destruction of a nation or ethnic group through the disintegration of its institutions, culture, language, national feelings, religion, and economic existence. The Genocide Convention restricts Lemkin's definition, limiting it to acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group.learn more on wikipedia