And that definition argues that a genocide is the intentional killing of all or part of a designated people defined by their faith,their race, their ethnicity or their nationality."

VOA: standard.2010.03.18

So if you have a mass killing of an ethno-religious group, carried out by a government in order to eliminate those people from their homeland, or to destroy their political and cultural potential - that is,by the conventional definition and most scholarly definitions, a genocide."

VOA: standard.2010.03.18