The crime of genocide is one of the most devastating human tragedies in history. And the word genocide refers to an organized destruction of a specific group of people belonging to the same culture, ethnicity, race, religion or national group, often in a war situation. Similar to massacre, where anyone linked to a particular group, regardless of age, gender and ethnicity, becomes the target of massacre, genocide more profoundly involves the destruction of people's identities and usually consists of a careful and careful plan drawn up in advance in order to demolish the unwanted group for mainly political reasons. While the term genocide was only coined recently, in 1943, by Raphael Lemkin, a Polish Jewish jurist, from the ancient Greek word "genos" meaning race and the Latin word "cide" meaning murder, there are many examples of events similar to genocide. which occurred before the 20th century. And this new term raises the question of whether genocide is a contemporary description defined through current perspectives on the criminal act or whether it is simply part of the inevitable progress of human evolution brought about by modernity. From a number of examples of past genocides, historians have discovered the relationship between genocide and modernity, however, since the word modernity covers a vast range of aspects about new changes and developments in a society, therefore it is difficult to identify the connection between the two, which makes the term more ambiguous when trying to explain. However, what we are sure of is that the importance of modernity acts as a fuse in genocides that have cost millions of lives, which obviously explains their strong association with each other. Looking for...... middle of paper ......onassohn. The History and Sociology of Genocide: Analysis and Case Studies (Durham: Yale University Press, 1990) 249Henry Morgenthau. Quotes stated by Witnesses to the Armenian Genocide, Armenian National Committee of America, http://www.anca.org/genocide/quotes.phpInara Walden. To send it to the service: Aboriginal servants, Austlii, http://austlii.law.uts.edu.au/au/journals/AboriginalLB/1995/52.htmlJens-Uwe Korff. Aboriginal Timeline (1770-1899), Creative Spirits, http://www.creativespirits.info/aboriginalculture/history/aboriginal-history-timeline-early-white.htmlRaphael Lemkin. Axis Rule in Occupied Europe: Laws of Occupation (Washington, DC: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 1944) 79Roderic H. Davidson. Türkiye (Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, 1968) 109Sean Sheehan. Facing the Facts: Genocide (Chicago: Raintree, 2005) 4-5