The crime of genocide is one of the most devastating human tragedies in history. And the word genocide refers to the organized destruction of a specific group of people who belong to the same culture, ethnic, racial, religious or national group, often in a war situation. Similar to mass killing, in which anyone related to a particular group regardless of their age, gender and ethnic origin becomes the target of killing, genocide involves a deeper destruction of people's identity and usually consists of a careful plan laid out to demolish people's identities. unwanted group mainly for political reasons. Although the term genocide was only recently coined in 1943 by Raphael Lemkin, a Polish-Jewish legal scholar, from the ancient Greek word “genos” meaning race and the Latin word “cide” meaning killing, there are many examples of genocide-like events. occurred before the 20th century. And this new term raises the question of whether genocide is a contemporary description defined through current perspectives of the criminal act or is just part of the inevitable human evolutionary progress caused by modernity. From a number of examples of past genocides, historians have discovered the relationship between genocide and modernity, however, since the word modernity encompasses a wide range of aspects relating to new changes and developments in a society, it is therefore difficult to pinpoint the link between two and thus make the term more ambiguous when trying to explain. However, what we are certain of is that the meaning of modernity acts as a fuse in the genocides that have cost millions of lives and this evidently explains their strong association with each other. Looking... at the center of the paper... onassohn. History and Sociology of Genocide: Analysis and Case Studies (Durham: Yale University Press, 1990) 249Henry Morgenthau. Quotes Reported by Witnesses of the Armenian Genocide, Armenian National Committee of America, http://www.anca.org/genocide/quotes.phpInara Walden. To send her into service: Aboriginal Domestic 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. The Axis Government in Occupied Europe: Occupation Laws (Washington, DC: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 1944) 79Roderic H. Davidson. Türkiye (Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, 1968) 109Sean Sheehan. Face the Facts: Genocide (Chicago: Raintree, 2005) 4-5