"acts of extermination" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It refers to deliberate and systematic actions taken to destroy or eliminate a large group of people or animals. Example: The international community was horrified by the reports of acts of extermination committed during the genocide in Rwanda.
Paulo Cesar Quartiero, a rice planter, says the controversial reservation in Roraima is an act of "extermination", missing only the crematoria.
Each time the Syrian government blocks U.N. aid from reaching areas under siege — as it has done routinely in the past four years — it may be perpetrating the act of "extermination," a crime against humanity that includes the "deprivation of access to food and medicine, calculated to bring about the destruction of part of a population".
That October, a United Nations Commission of Experts found that the "concerted, planned, systematic and methodical" acts of "mass extermination perpetrated by Hutu elements against the Tutsi group" in Rwanda "constitute genocide".
However, his bureaucratic job did not shield him completely from physical acts of the extermination process: as early as his first day, Gröning saw children hidden on the train, and those unable to walk that remained among the rubbish and debris after the selection process had been completed, being shot.
Allegations against the seven include murder, rape, extermination, acts of terror, sexual slavery, conscription of children into an armed force and attacks on UN peacekeepers.
Judge Nil Nonn said the men were guilty of "extermination encompassing murder, political persecution, and other inhumane acts comprising forced transfer, enforced disappearances and attacks against human dignity".
"A war of extermination," he calls it.
"They are not subhuman monsters worthy of extermination".
The Palestinians say: "This is a war of extermination".
