genocide

The systematic killing of a select group of individuals in a population that is sanctioned by a country’s leaders, thereby constituting a policy, which may have the local medical community’s implied support.

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genocide

(jĕn′ō-sīd″) [Gr. genos, race, + L. caedere, to kill]

The willful and planned murder of a particular social or ethnic group.

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