English-Finnish translations for genocide

• kansanmurha
  Se, mitä tapahtui Ruandassa, oli kansanmurha. What happened in Rwanda was genocide.
  Armenialaisten kansanmurha on historiallinen totuus. The Armenian genocide is a historical truth.
  Se, mitä Euroopassa tapahtui 60 vuotta sitten, oli kansanmurha. What happened in Europe 60 years was genocide.
• joukkotuhonta
  Sille on vain yksi nimi, ja se on joukkotuhonta. There is only one name for it, and that is genocide.
  Meidän on sanottava selkästi, että Ukrainan tapahtumat olivat joukkotuhonta. We must clearly say that the events in Ukraine were genocide.
  Joukkotuhonta määritellään etnisiin syihin perustuvaksi tuhoamiseksi. Genocide is defined as extermination according to ethnic criteria.

Definition of genocide

• The systematic killing of substantial numbers of people on the basis of their ethnicity, religion, political beliefs, social status, or other particularities
• The systematic suppression of ideas on the basis of cultural or ethnic origin; culturicide
• The elimination of an entire class of monsters by the player
• To commit genocide ; to eliminate completely

Examples

• A genocide will always be followed by the denial that it ever happened.

Related words

• antigenocide
• genocider
• indigenocide