Genocide is defined as the deliberate killing of a large group of people of a particular nationality or ethnicity. Examples given include the Holocaust where 6 million Jews were killed by Nazi Germany from 1942-1945, the Rwandan Genocide of 1994 where 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus were killed, and the Mayan genocide from 1981-1983 where tens of thousands of Mayans died in Guatemala.