Much has been said about about the genocide that has been committed in Rwanda. In armed conflict, there is a tendency to dehumanize the opposing side, to use inflammatory rhetoric, to use whatever means are at hand to bring about casualties among the enemy. War is horrible.
War is hell.
But war is not the same thing as genocide. If killing on the battlefield were the same thing as genocide, then one would have to say, for example, that every one of the nations taking part in World War II was a victim of genocide. And, indeed, it is certainly accurate to point out that casualties among each of these groups can be attributed to combatants of a different national origin. But the term genocide is reserved for something that goes beyond war and is entirely different in function and purpose. Germany was not at war with the Jews in any sense that is comparable to the nation's war with the allied powers.