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genocide

/jen-uh-sahyd/US // ˈdʒɛn əˌsaɪd //UK // (ˈdʒɛnəʊˌsaɪd) //

灭绝种族罪,灭绝种族,种族灭绝,灭族

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the deliberate and systematic extermination of a national, racial, political, or cultural group.

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Examples

  • When taken to an extreme, hateful rhetoric by political leaders can precipitate civil wars and genocides, as was the case in the 1990s in Rwanda, where Hutu extremists used anti-Tutsi radio broadcasts to foment widespread violence.

  • More still are protesting the movie since parts were filmed in Xinjiang, a minority region of China facing cultural genocide from the government.

  • The starkest example of that is the human rights abuses taking place against Uyghurs and other Muslim groups in Xinjiang, where some argue a full-blown genocide is underway.

  • The war-on-fire mentality found especially fertile ground in California, a state that had emerged from the genocide and cultural destruction of tribes who understood fire and relied on its benefits to tend their land.

  • Kitty Genovese is not in Bosnia, but genocide resides there now.

  • While the world fixated on Ukraine and Syria, a near-genocide ripped through central Africa, to little international fanfare.

  • He was referring to the genocide of Muslims during the Bosnian War.

  • His latest book is An Inconvenient Genocide: Who Now Remembers The Armenians?

  • To get a resolution about genocide passed, he devised a letter-writing campaign.

  • Watchers of the Sky examines the legacy of Raphael Lemkin, the man who succeeded in making genocide an international crime.

  • Nuclear nightmares intermingled with Armenian and Jewish flashbacks of genocide.

  • The mystery of our failure at genocide forced an unpleasant decision on Benson.

  • In a chance encounter with angry Serb mobs in the streets of Pristina he accused the Albanians of genocide.

  • Genocide is defined as the extermination of a race of sapient beings.

  • He didn't want to be accused of genocide, since the Lani were so human in appearance.