Genocide vs Srebrenica - What's the difference?
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The systematic killing of substantial numbers of people on the basis of their ethnicity, religion, political beliefs, social status, or other particularities.
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To commit genocide (against); to eliminate (a group of people) completely.
A town in the east of Bosnia, which was the site of an ethnic cleansing .
An ethnic cleansing massacre, a localized genocide.
* 2008 , Ralph Peters, Never Quit the Fight (ISBN 0811734404), page 132:
* 2011 , Western Intervention in the Balkans: The Strategic Use of Emotion in Conflict'' (Roger D. Petersen; ISBN 1107010667), page 155:
* 2012 January 17, Canon Ian Woodward, in comments before the United Kingdom House of Commons, published in South Sudan: prospects for peace and development, fifteenth report of session 2010–12 (ISBN 0215043731), page 15:
As nouns the difference between genocide and srebrenica
is that genocide is genocide while srebrenica is an ethnic cleansing massacre, a localized genocide.As a proper noun srebrenica is
a town in the east of bosnia, which was the site of an ethnic cleansing.genocide
English
(wikipedia genocide)Noun
Usage notes
(Genocide definitions) Genocide is defined in various laws, and used in varying ways; characterization of an act as “genocide” is a strong condemnation, and may prove contentious. Narrowly speaking, genocide was coined to mean, and is generally used in law to mean, the destruction of an ethnic group qua group, whether killing of all members of the group or other means, such as dispersing the group. In common usage, “genocide” is often used to mean “systematic mass killing”, whether or not the purpose is the destruction of the group or some other purpose, such as terrorizing the group. Specific genocides are often capitalized, e.g. "Armenian G enocide".Derived terms
* autogenocide, auto-genocide * cultural genocide * genocidal * genocidally * genocidism * genocidistSee also
* crime against humanity * dehumanization * democide * ethnic cleansing * holocaust, Holocaust * Holodomor * mass murder * Porajmos * pogrom * Shoah * war crimeVerb
(en-verb)References
srebrenica
English
(wikipedia)Proper noun
(en proper noun)Noun
(en noun)- And another Srebrenica , a Lidice, a Babi Yar . . .
- The West had seen enough of Milosevic and they would not tolerate the possibility of another Srebrenica .
- I think we all saw that very strong leader in The Times on Saturday, with the suggestion that the UN was walking, in the case of Jonglei, into another Srebrenica or another Rwanda.