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Recently, I was surprised to find out that Genocide, in it's modern usage, doesn't apply to just racially/ethnically based killings, but any mass targeted killing in general. How did the shift in meaning from it's original definition occur?

by /u/jabberwockxeno in /r/AskHistorians

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