Genocide is a powerful word. We should use it sparingly. Its over-usage cheapens the horrors signified by the term and dishonors those who the act has victimized.

When employing the term, two obvious examples come to mind – the annihilation of the indigenous people of the Western Hemisphere (56 million just from 1492 to 1600) and the decimation of Jews throughout Christian European history (6 million just during the Third Reich).

We can add to this list the Rape of Nanking (about 300,000, about half the city’s population), Stalin’s Holodomor (7 million Ukrainians), and of course, the Armenian Genocide (1.5 million, about half the population).

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