[dragonwriter]

> Colloquially we all associate genocide with killings, the oxford definition captures this fact.

No, we don't, and the Merriam-Webster definition [0] captures this fact: “the deliberate and systematic destruction of a racial, political, or cultural group”.

As does the Britannica [1] definition: “the deliberate and systematic destruction of a group of people because of their ethnicity, nationality, religion, or race.”

While killing the individual members of a group is a common mechanism of genocide, the killing the “-cide” in the term refers to is the killing or destruction of the group as a group, not the killing of the individuals who constitute the group.

[0] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/genocide

[1] https://www.britannica.com/topic/genocide