Instruction: Read the following passage and select the best answer for each of the questions that follow. Genocides have occurred from time to time in different parts of the world throughout history. One of the most horrific ? Genocides occurred in Bangladesh in the 1971, when hundreds of thousands of men, women and children were slaughtered systematically. The term genocide, a joining of the Greek genos, meaning race or tribe, and the Latin suffix-cide, or killing, was coined in 1946 by a distinguished international legal scholar, Professor Raphael Lemkin. The mass murder of six million Jews by the Nazis was the most vivid, violent, and tragic ethnic of genocide. But this century alone has seen others -Armenians, Gypsies, Chinese, Slays. Some 20 million people have been slaughtered because of their racial, religious, or ethnic backgrounds. In the language of the United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, genocide means certain specifically defined acts "committed with intent to destroy in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such.” Q. The word genocide literally means---
Solution
Correct Answer: Option A
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