Genocide. It’s a difficult word. It’s a triggering word. Even a dangerous word. One that is used frivolously and vexaciously in equal measure. It is a loaded word. Sometimes loaded with moral indignation and sanctimonious tartuffery. 

But it is a word that should be handled with great care and respect. Because it is a legal word. It carries legal weight and meaning with precise terms and conditions attached. To use it otherwise, is to do a great disservice to those who have suffered or are suffering from the hands of genocide and also to those who have fought to have it accepted into modern international legal practice.

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