Genocidaire

Quick meaning: Genocidaire is a noun meaning A person involved in perpetrating a genocide.

Meaning

A person involved in perpetrating a genocide.

Example Sentences

To take an example from a clear case of genocide—Rwanda—the Hutu génocidaires did not appear to want to destroy all Tutsis everywhere, but only in Rwanda.

When the RPF sent him and a friend back to school in Rwanda […] his friend attacked the Hutu teacher one night, strangling him with a rope, saying that he was a génocidaire.

'There are thousands of genocidaires living in EU countries, with large numbers in almost every European country including the UK,' said Rakiya Omaar, whose organisation, African Rights, has worked since the genocide to track them down.

But the US is completely isolated from the rest of the world in this. Somehow, Rubio in his inexperience thinks that an action like stopping the Palestinian delegates to come spares the US from the opprobrium of being a genocidaire that is complicit in a genocide and being completely isolated in this.

Word Forms

• genocidaires

Synonyms for genocidaire

Depending on context, synonyms include genocider.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include genocidist, genocider, genocide, pogromist, parenticide, exterminationist.

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