The Nazi leaders who were prosecuted shortly after World War II for taking part in the Holocaust , and other mass murders , were charged under existing international laws , such as crimes against humanity , as the crime of " genocide ' was not formally defined until the 1948 '' Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide '' ( CPPCG ) . Nevertheless , the recently coined term appeared in the indictment of the Nazi leaders , Count 3 , which stated that those charged had " conducted deliberate and systematic genocide — namely , the extermination of racial and national groups — against the civilian populations of certain occupied territories in order to destroy particular races and classes of people , and national , racial or religious groups , particularly Jews , Poles , Gypsies and others . " The term '' Bosnian genocide '' is used to refer either to the killings committed by Serb forces in Srebrenica in 1995 , or to ethnic cleansing that took place elsewhere during the 1992 – 1995 Bosnian War
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