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7 sentences with 'genocide'

Example sentences and phrases with the word genocide and other words derived from it.


• « In short, the Holocaust was a distinctly and horrifically modern genocide. »
• « In others, however, colonisation amounted to genocide. Among the worst cases is that of Belgium. »
• « To this day, the Turkish government (while admitting that many Armenians died) denies what historians have long recognised: Armenians were the victims of a deliberate campaign of genocide, with over a million killed. »
• « Thus, although the Holocaust is, and should be, defined primarily as the genocide of European Jews by the Nazis, it is still appropriate to consider the other victims of Nazi ideology as one aspect of Nazi mass murder as a whole. »
• « When the African Nama peoples rose up soon after, they too were exterminated. In the end, more than two-thirds of the Herero and Nama peoples were killed. This was the first, but not the last, genocide carried out by German soldiers in the 20th century. »
• « The word genocide means "murder of a people", and while the act of genocide was not invented in the 20th century - there have been forms of it since the ancient world - never before had a government carried out a genocide as far-reaching, as bureaucratically managed or as focused as the Holocaust. »
• « The cases of the Congo and the genocide of the Herero and Nama peoples are rightly remembered, and studied by historians, as iconic expressions of imperialist violence, but they were only two of the most extreme and shocking examples of the pervasive violence that established and sustained all the imperial conquests of the time. »

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