Genocide is the destruction of a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group.
From the massacre of the Armenians, to the planned famine in the Ukraine, to the Holocaust, to the killing fields of Cambodia, to the present day slaughter of ethnic Albanians in Kosovo, this massive human suffering caused by people, has been a regrettable fact of human existence for centuries. Genocide in Our Time . Dobkowski and Wallimann, p.xi. Full text encyclopedic entries on-line. Books can be searched by full text.