The physical extermination of one people by another, either as a deliberate act or as the accidental outcome of activities carried out by one people with little regard for their impact on others is called _________.

The word genocide is used to refer to the systematic extermination of an ethnic group or to any deliberate act that aims to exterminate a fundamental cultural aspect of a people. The term was first used in 1944 by Raphael Lemkin, a Polish jurist who contributed during and after the Second World War period to the construction of international laws on this crime. Lemkim was one of the main participants in the 1948 UN Convention for the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide

Although it is not a new phenomenon, since there are records of genocide throughout human history, it was only after the appalling events that took place during World War II, perpetrated by Nazism, that the International Community came together to try to curb this type of crime.