Genocide is " the deliberate and systematic destruction, in whole or in part, of an ethnic, racial, religious, or national group ", though what constitutes enough of a " part " to qualify as genocide has been subject to much debate by legal scholars.

( 1994 ) Death by Government: Genocide and Mass Murder in the Twentieth Century, New Jersey: Transaction Publishers.

* GenoDynamics: Understanding Genocide Through Time and Space by Christian Davenport ( Kroc Institute – University of Notre Dame ) and Allan Stam ( University of Michigan )

Finkelstein scathingly compared the media treatment of the Holocaust and the media treatment of other genocides such as the Holodomor and the Armenian Genocide, particularly by members of what he calls " The Holocaust Industry ".

However, by this time historical consensus was changing, and he was " angrily compared ... to a holocaust denier " by Dr Charny, executive director of the Institute on the Holocaust and Genocide in Jerusalem.

In August 2007, the Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity produced a letter signed by 53 Nobel Laureates re-affirming the Genocide Scholars ' conclusion that the 1915 killings of Armenians constituted genocide.

* The Lesser Evil: Moral Approaches to Genocide Practices ( Totalitarian Movements and Political Religions ), edited by Helmut Dubiel and Gabriel Motzkin.

Many of the killings in the Rwandan Genocide were performed with machetes, and they were the primary weapon used by the Interahamwe militias there.

This tool has been used as a weapon: in the Rwandan Genocide ; in South Africa particularly in the 1980s and early 1990s when the former province of Natal was wracked by conflict between the African National Congress and the Zulu-nationalist Inkatha Freedom Party.

* Genocide in Australia by Colin Tatz, AIATSIS Research Discussion Papers No 8

Popper, who was granted rights by the Argentine government to exploit any gold deposits he found in Tierra del Fuego, has been pointed as a central figure in what is called the Selknam Genocide.

In addition, humanitarian intervention by multinational forces became more frequent and the media began to play a big role, particularly in the lead up to the 1999 NATO mission in Yugoslavia, while by contrast, the 1994 Rwandan Genocide had little attention.

Many of the districts around central Yerevan were named after former Armenian communities that were destroyed by the Ottoman Turks during the Armenian Genocide.

In 1965, during the commemorations of the fiftieth anniversary of the Armenian Genocide, Yerevan was the location of a demonstration, the first such demonstration in the Soviet Union, to demand recognition of the Genocide by the Soviet authorities.

< imagemap > File: 1990s decade montage. png | From left, clockwise: The Hubble Space Telescope floats in space after it was taken up in 1990 ; American F-16s and F-15s fly over burning oil fields and the USA Lexie in Operation Desert Storm, also known as the 1991 Gulf War ; The signing of the Oslo Accords on 13 September 1993 ; The World Wide Web gains a public face during the start of decade and as a result gains massive popularity worldwide ; Boris Yeltsin and followers stand on a tank in defiance to the August Coup, which leads to the Soviet Union's dissolution on 26 December 1991 ; Dolly the sheep is the first mammal to be cloned from an adult somatic cell ; The funeral procession of Diana, Princess of Wales, who dies in 1997 from a car crash in Paris, and is mourned by millions ; Hundreds of thousands are killed in the Rwandan Genocide of 1994 .| 420px | thumb

* The Rwandan Genocide – between 6 April 1994 until mid-July 1994 a mass killing of hundreds of thousands of Rwanda's Tutsis and Hutu political moderates occurred by the Hutu dominated government under the Hutu Power ideology.

The event known as the Armenian Genocide is considered by some to have been a population transfer.

First coined by Raphael Limkin in 1944, the word became politically charged when The Genocide Act was enacted by the United Nations on December 9, 1948, which created an obligation for governments to respond to such atrocities in the future.

Turkish official teasing starved Armenian Genocide | Armenian children by showing bread, 1915

* In 2001, he was awarded the David Watt Prize for " outstanding contributions towards the clarification of political issues and the promotion of their greater understanding " for his investigation into the Armenian Genocide by the Ottoman Empire in 1915.

The U. S. State Department-funded Yale Cambodian Genocide Project estimates approximately 1. 7 million.

* Alan Cantwell, in self-published books entitled AIDS and the Doctors of Death: An Inquiry into the Origin of the AIDS Epidemic and Queer Blood: The Secret AIDS Genocide Plot, says that HIV is a genetically modified organism developed by U. S. Government scientists and that it was introduced into the population through Hepatitis B experiments performed on gay and bisexual men between 1978 – 1981 in major U. S. cities.

Later that year the U. S. Senate unanimously passed the Prevention of Genocide Act of 1988, cutting off all U. S. assistance to Iraq and stopping U. S. imports of Iraqi oil.

The U. S. State Department-funded Yale Cambodian Genocide Project estimates approximately 1. 7 million.

In Fall 2008, U. S. Institute of Peace, the U. S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and the American Academy of Diplomacy jointly convened the Genocide Prevention Task Force to " spotlight genocide prevention as a national priority and to develop practical policy recommendations to enhance the capacity of the U. S. government to respond to emerging threats of genocide and mass atrocities.

" In December 2008, the task force released its report " Preventing Genocide: A Blueprint for U. S. Policymakers " detailing its recommendations and guidelines.

On August 4, 2011, U. S. President Barack Obama announced a proclamation suspending U. S. entry to individuals active in " serious human rights and humanitarian law violations " and called for the creation of an Interagency Atrocities Prevention Board to review, coordinate and develop an atrocity prevention and response policy, and incorporate recommendations provided by the Genocide Prevention Task Force.

Her paternal grandparents were Armenian immigrants who moved to the U. S. from Turkey to escape the Armenian Genocide.

Smith has also been a strong supporter of issues of importance to Armenian Americans including U. S. recognition of the Armenian Genocide.

* Gribbin, Robert E. In the Aftermath of Genocide: the U. S. Role in Rwanda.

In 2010, three Armenian Americans, who have deeds proving ownership of properties stolen from their families during the Armenian Genocide, are seeking compensation for of land in the Adana region of Turkey where the strategic Incirlik U. S. Air Base is partly located on their property.

In 1951 he presented the document, We Charge Genocide, to the United Nations, charging the U. S. federal government with complicity in genocide for pass legislation or take action against lynching in the United States.

" We Charge Genocide: The Crime of Government Against the Negro People ", often shorted to " We Charge Genocide ", was a petition presented to the United Nations in 1951, arguing that the U. S. federal government, by its failure to act against lynching in the United States, was guilty of genocide under Article II of the UN Genocide Convention.

In 1949, Dr. Alfaro was chairman of the legal committee of the third session of the U. N. General Assembly that drew up the text of the Convention on Genocide.

The first post-war international treaty to protect minorities, designed to protect them from the greatest threat to their existence, was the U. N. Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.

* U. N. Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide

During World War I, the Armenian Genocide, the Greek genocide ( especially in Pontus ), and the Assyrian Genocide almost entirely removed the ancient communities of Armenian and Assyrian populations in Anatolia, as well as a large part of its ethnic Greek population.

* 1994 – The Rwandan Genocide begins when the aircraft carrying Rwandan president Juvénal Habyarimana and Burundian president Cyprien Ntaryamira is shot down.

Justice Commandos Against Armenian Genocide claim responsibility, saying they are avenging the massacre of 1. 5 million Armenians in the 1915 Armenian Genocide.

However, the dispute over the Armenian Genocide and the recent war over Nagorno-Karabakh have created tense relations with two of its immediate neighbors, Azerbaijan and Turkey.

Political map showing states which have officially recognized the Armenian Genocide.

Countries that officially recognize the Armenian genocide include Argentina, Armenia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Chile, Cyprus, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Lebanon, Lithuania, The Netherlands, Poland, Russia, Slovakia, Sweden, Switzerland, Uruguay, Vatican City and Venezuela ; additionally, some regional governments of countries recognize the Armenian genocide, such as New South Wales in Australia and Wales in the United Kingdom, also officially recognize the Armenian Genocide.

His successor President Barack Obama has expressed his desire to recognize the Armenian Genocide during the electoral campaigns, but after being elected, has not used the word genocide in his first annual April 24 speech in 2009.

An Assyrian war of independence was fought during World War I following the Assyrian Genocide suffered at the hands of the Ottomans and their Kurdish allies.

* 1915 – The arrest of 250 Armenian intellectuals and community leaders in Istanbul marks the beginning of the Armenian Genocide.

* 1994 – Rwandan Genocide: Massacres of Tutsis begin in Kigali, Rwanda.

* Rummel, Rudolph Joseph ( 1990 ) Lethal Politics: Soviet Genocide and Mass Murder Since 1917.

The legal meaning of genocide refers to the international treaty on genocide, the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.

* 1994 – Rwandan Genocide: Military advisor to the United Nations Secretary-General and head of the Military Division of the Department of Peacekeeping Operations of the United Nations Maurice Baril recommends that the UN multi-national forces in Zaire stand down.

* Acknowledge the Armenian Genocide of the early 1900s.

The practice of negative racial aspects of eugenics, after World War II, fell within the definition of the new international crime of genocide, set out in the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.

* Dr. Richard Breitman, The Architect of Genocide: Himmler and The Final Solution, Alfred A. Knopf Inc., New York, 1991.