Question

____ occurs when individuals in a group are selected for destruction only because they belong to that group

Answer 1

The word is genocide

Answer 2

The correct answer is: "genocide"

Genocide is a term used to refer to the destruction, massive killing or slaughtering of individuals from a certain human group only because of pertaining to a certain ethnic, religious, national or racial group. Two examples would be the massive extermination of Jews undertaken during WWII by the German nazi goverment and the extermination of the Tutsi population by the Hutus in Rwanda in 1994.