Rohingya: Slaughter of the innocents: Searing eye-witness accounts from the genocide taking place under the nose of feted Nobel Peace Prize Winner Aung San Suu Kyi...

Genocide is a word which should be always be used with care. Random atrocities, however horrible, certainly do not constitute genocide.

Genocide is carefully planned.

According to the United Nations, genocide comprises 'acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group'.

That is why the savage and deliberate massacre of more than one million Cambodians by the dictator Pol Pot in the Seventies was genocide.

The methodical killing of 7,000 Bosnian Muslims in Srebrenica in 1995 was genocide.

So was the horrific slaughter of several thousands of Yazidis in Iraq by Islamic State three years ago. Full story...

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