genocide

JEN-uh-side

meaning in plain English

The planned murder of many people because of their race, religion, or other group they belong to.

Picture a mass grave party called genocide—people erased because of who they are.

for example

People who start a genocide often try to say it never happened.

Imagine a neighbor who systematically targets every family on your block just because of their last name—burning their homes, silencing their voices, and erasing their history. That’s not just cruelty; it’s genocide, a word that names the deliberate destruction of people who share nothing but a label.