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The Use of the Term "Genocide" Has Become More Widespread

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The use of the term "genocide" has become more widespread.During the Columbian quincentenary in 1992,it was often used by both popular and academic writers to refer to the impact of Europeans on the Native peoples of the New World.Compare that encounter with other events to which the term "genocide" is applied (e.g. ,the Holocaust during World War II)? Does the conscious intention to eradicate a population always justify the use of the term "genocide"?


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