Editing Genocide

[[Image:Nyamata Memorial Site 13.jpg|thumb|272px|The skulls of victims of the [[Rwandan Genocide]] on display at the Nyamata Genocide Memorial Centre.]]
{{Important}}'''Genocide''' refers to a deliberate attempt to exterminate a certain racial, religious, national or ethnic group of people, usually through systematic violence and abuse that can amount to mass [[murder]] and [[state terrorism]]: many countries have been practicing genocide for thousands of years and it has only recently been seen as a major issue to be resolved, due in part to the infamous [[The Holocaust|Holocaust]] of [[World War II]] - which opened many people's eyes to the extent genocide can go if left unopposed. A specific type of genocide is that which is targeted at [[Genocide of Indigenous Peoples|indigenous peoples]] of any territory or region, which is often perpetrated by imperialist or colonial powers.

Genocide is the most common (and most violent) form of [[ethnic cleansing]]. However, both genocide and ethnic cleansing are often kept separate in legal contexts; while ethnic cleansing and genocide may share the same goal and the acts used to perpetrate both crimes may often resemble each other, ethnic cleansing is intended to displace a population from a given territory, while genocide is intended to destroy a population.

Under international law genocide is a [[crime against humanity]], sadly it still remains rife in certain areas of the world and is hard to control due to it often being born of deep and prevalent hatred or fear of certain minorities.

==Notable examples==
*[[Circassian Genocide]]
*[[Rwandan Genocide]]
*[[Cambodian Genocide]]
*[[The Holocaust]]
*[[Armenian Genocide]]
*[[Greek Genocide]]
*The ''[[Sayfo]]'' (Assyrian Genocide)
*[[Darfur Genocide]]
*[[Bosnian Genocide]] ([[Srebrenica Massacre]])
*[[Selk'nam Genocide]]
*[[Guatemalan Genocide]]
*[[East Timor Genocide]]
*[[Isaaq Genocide]]
*[[Indian Muslim Genocide]]
*[[Kashmiri Genocide]]
*[[Yazidi Genocide]] ([[Sinjar Massacre]])
*[[Rohingya Genocide]]
*[[The Holodomor]]
*[[Operation Searchlight]] / [[1971 Bangladesh Genocide]]
*The [[Porajmos]] (Romani genocide)
*The [[1804 Haiti massacre]]
*[[Amerindian Genocide]] / [[American Indian Wars]] 
**[[The Trail of Tears]]
**[[Wounded Knee Massacre]]
**[[Sand Creek Massacre]]
**[[Indian Removal Act]]
**[[California Genocide]] 
*The ''[[Gukurahundi]]''
*[[Anfal Genocide]]
*[[Decossackization]]
*The [[Pacification of Libya]]
*The [[Indonesian mass killings of 1965–66]]
*[[Indigenous Australian Genocide]] / [[Australian Frontier Wars]] ([[Black War]])
*The ''[[Sook Ching]]''
*The [[Rape of Nanking]]
*''[[Effacer le tableau]]'' (Bambuti genocide)
*The ''[[Ikiza]]''
*The [[Great Purge]]
*[[Massacres of Hutus during the First Congo War]]
*[[Parsley Massacre]]
*[[Hamidian Massacres]]
*[[Dzunghar Genocide]]
*[[Uyghur Genocide]]
*The [[Sabra and Shatila Massacre]]
*''[[Aardakh]]''
*[[Simele Massacre]]
*The [[Sétif and Guelma Massacre]]
*[[Hmong Genocide]]
*[[Helmet Massacre]]
*[[Serbian Genocide]]
*[[Operation Storm]]
*''[[Generalplan Ost]]''
*[[Moriori Genocide]]
*[[Lisbon Massacre]]
*[[Rhineland Massacres]]
*[[Asiatic Vespers]]
*[[Putumayo Genocide]]
*[[Paraguayan War]]
*[[St. Brice's Day Massacre]]
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