Ethnocide

Word ETHNOCIDE
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Definitions and meanings of "Ethnocide"

What do we mean by ethnocide?

The deliberate and systematic destruction of an ethnic group, accomplished either by destroying the members of the group (genocide) or by destroying its cultural identity (culturicide).

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The word "ethnocide" in example sentences

- L'viv, 2001), 654 pp. [16] Explaining that he was combining "the ancient Greek word" genos "(race, tribe) and the Latin" cide "(killing)," he added in a footnote, "Another term could be used for the same idea, namely," ethnocide, "consisting of the Greek word 'ethnos'-nation-and the Latin word ❋ Unknown (2009)

The group says it wrote the prince Friday to say he will be welcome in Quebec if he apologizes for "ethnocide" of francophones after New France passed into the hands of Britain in 1763. ❋ Unknown (2009)

On the other hand, we have made far more serious efforts at ethnocide over the last century and a half, developed and used truly horrific weapons in two world wars, etc. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Maybe if Reagan stopped giving them guns & money & protection, they might have slowed or stopped their ethnocide, but in this case U.S. foreign policy was quite clearly on the side of the would-be genocidalists. ❋ Unknown (2008)

There's a word for what Arizona is attempting to do here: ethnocide. ❋ Randall Amster (2010)

While Iraq is in a state of lawless, Somalia-style anarchy today, it's also possible for it to turn into Rwanda levels of ethnocide. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Tashka and his wife, Laura, have led the remote Yawanawa people in the Brazilian Amazon back from the brink of ethnocide. ❋ Unknown (2008)

If you won't allow them to say 'This land is OURS', you license imperialism, and de-criminalise ethnocide. ❋ Unknown (2008)

And that Islamic ideology drove and legitimated the Islamic ethnocide of Armenians at the turn of the century. ❋ Unknown (2006)

And that Catholic ideology drove and legitimated the Catholic-generated Rwandan ethnocide at the end of the century. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Article 7: Indigenous peoples have the collective and individual right not to be subjected to ethnocide and cultural genocide, including prevention of and redress for: ❋ Unknown (2006)

Read on: We have long played with words about this, labeling Israel's policy 'ethnocide,' meaning the attempt to destroy the Palestinians as a people with a specific ethnic identity. ❋ Unknown (2006)

You know, genocide, the physical extinction of a people is universally condemned, but ethnocide, the destruction of people's way of life, is not only not condemned, it's universally -- in many quarters -- celebrated as part of a development strategy. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Who can predict what other great scientific conquests and developments these people could have achieved, if they had not been conquered by blood and fire, and subjected to an ethnocide that affected nearly 50 million people in the course of 500 years. ❋ Unknown (1999)

Who can predict what other great scientific conquests and developments these people could have achieved, if they had not been conquered in blood and fire, and subjected to an ethnocide that affected nearly ❋ Unknown (1992)

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