what is genocide

Genocide is defined in the dictionary as the deliberate and systematic extermination of a national, racial, political, or cultural group, (Dictionary). The UN defines it as any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group, as such: killing members of the group; causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life, calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; and forcibly transferring children of the group to another group,( UN).