ethnocide
Americannoun
plural
ethnocidesOther Word Forms
- ethnocidal adjective
Example Sentences
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In 1944, Lemkin coined the words genocide and ethnocide.
From BBC
Additionally, truth and reconciliation commissions, a national apology, reparations, holding evildoers accountable, and other processes nations have used to heal after a genocide, the linguistic sibling of ethnocide, will help America change course and forge equality and justice.
From BBC
America today must define and confront the Original Sin of slavery, ethnocide, and the cultural destruction it has inflicted upon all Americans, past and present.
From BBC
A regional network called the Indigenous Organisations of the Amazon Basin, or COICA, which represents 4 million peoples from the Amazin basin, is appealing for contingency funds faced with a threat of a Covid-19 “ethnocide”.
From The Guardian
“To me that amounts to a policy of genocide and ethnocide.”
From New York Times
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