And don't forget ...

[Laurence Horn]

Maybe safer than "genocider", which looks and sounds like a particularly unfortunate name for a fruit drink.

LH

On Sep 18, 2014, at 9:09 AM, David Barnhart wrote:

> genocidaire, jen uh seye DAIR /d¥en c sYi’der/, n. {W}  1. a person who
> participates in crimes of genocide; genocidist. Compare war crime (OEDs:
> 1906) and crime against humanity (OEDs: 1944).  Standard (used in contexts
> dealing especially with crime; frequency?)
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> There are about 1,000 Tutsi survivors living in Kibuye town.  Today they are
> outnumbered by the number of freed killers on the streets.  “They live in
> the neighbourhood. They drink in the bars. We saw what they did with our own
> eyes. We live in fear because they are free,” says Madalena.  The government
> began releasing the genocidaire nearly two years ago.  The nation’s jail
> population had swelled to 120,000 and the established court system would
> have taken more than a century to try them. Chris McGreal, “‘It’s so
> difficult to live with what we know’,” The Guardian [England] (Google News),
> March 29, 2004, 
> 
> <http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,1179968,00.html>
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> 
> In one passage from the book, Dallaire describes a visit to a village he had
> hoped had not been wiped out by the genocidaire.  In the book, Dallaire
> describes the scene on a hill, where even the peace had been murdered.  ...
> As the death toll mounted, General Dallaire submitted a detailed plan for a
> Rapid Reaction Force. He needed 5,000 soldiers to dismantle the killing
> machine of the genocidaire and to stop the Hutu power movement. The UN
> Security Council rejected the plan. The United States even refused to
> acknowledge the genocide to avoid any legal obligations to help.  Carol Off,
> “In Depth: Romeo Dallaire,” CBC [Canadian Broadcasting Corporation] News
> (Google), Oct. 24, 2003, 
> 
> <http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/dallaire/>
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> 2. Attributive use.
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> 
> And to top it all off, the United States, the country I find myself a
> citizen of, has recently declared its support for the DRC’s government.
> Sympathy for the Rwandans?  Glad the Rwandese Patriotic Front smashed the
> genocidaire government to pieces?  If the US begins to aid the DRC
> government, financially or militarily, the troops that stopped the genocide
> in 1994 will be fighting against -US-, now!  Jerry Ku [Houston, Texas] in a
> letter to WGBH [PBS], “The Triumph of Evil; Discussion,” Frontline (Google),
> 1999 [the program was aired on Jan. 26, 1999], 
> 
> <http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/evil/talk/>
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> 
> 1996.  Loan word (borrowing): from French genocidaire, meaning “a person who
> attempts to commit genocide” [ultimately from English genocide (1944),
> coinded by Raphaël Lemkin (Duke U.)].
> 
> F The pronunciation given above is Anglicized.  In French it is pronounced:
> zhen uh si: DAIR /¥ã nc si:’der/.  The older term is genocidist (1977?).
> The new form has been adopted recently especially by human rights activists.
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