Dictionaries are written by people, too. Here's what mine tells me:
genocide noun the deliberate killing of a large group of people, esp. those of a particular ethnic group or nation.
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The systematic mass killing of a population is genocide, even if it's not an attempt to kill all of a particular ethnicity or nation. Even if the killing is claimed as collateral in the course of a war. Even if -- in fact especially if -- the casualty figures are falsified downwards by the entity responsible for the killing. Even if that entity is the United States.
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