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The answer is genocide. It is an deliberate action to wipe out people (usually ethnic, national, racial, or religious group) entirely or in part. The hybrid word "genocide" is a combination of the Greek word génos meaning race or people and the Latin suffix -cide meaning act of killing. The United Nations Genocide Convention, which was founded in 1948, describes genocide as "acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group."