The phrase "attempts at genocide" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing efforts or actions that aim to commit genocide, often in historical, legal, or political contexts.
Example: "The report detailed the attempts at genocide during the conflict, highlighting the need for international intervention."
Alternatives: "efforts to commit genocide" or "attempts to perpetrate genocide".
As indigenous people of the Americas, we have faced hundreds of years of brutal repression and all-out attempts at genocide through mass killings, diseased blankets, spoiled food, forced relocation, dislocation, mass starvation, exploitation of our natural resources, desecration of our sacred lands and practices and constant attacks from the governments under which we are living to this day.
Judging by the marginalization, abuse, and systematic attempts at genocide the Jews have suffered, it is safe to say that people of White European Christian heritage (in the widest sense of that term, including Russians), have held Jews in the same contempt that they have held peoples like African Americans and Native Americans.
"I was fighting on the right side of history, liberating my people from tyranny against a ruthless enemy engaged in a massive attempt at genocide," he said.
The more nationalist side of the Ukrainian body politic has tried to redefine the Holodomor, as they call the famine, as a deliberate attempt at genocide by Russia against Ukrainians.
In a parting letter to her supervisor she objected to the way Latino was used to describe brown-skinned Spanish-speakers: " 'Latino' -- as used in The Los Angeles Times -- is the most recent attempt at genocide perpetrated against the native people of the Americas".
It was an explicit attempt at genocide.
BiH's Muslims have come out of the conflict victimized by ethnic cleansing and an attempt at genocide.
How could we explain the fact that an entire nation followed a totalitarian madman to perpetrate the greatest attempt at genocide in history?
Tribal elders have painted the ongoing conflict a deliberate attempt at genocide, intended to slowly kill off the remaining members of the group.
The fierce insistence of indigenous people on cultural autonomy is in the face of dominant group attempts at cultural genocide.
"The refusal to end the judicial investigation (into downing the plane) and pronounce a dismissal against Rwandan leaders who ended the genocide is an attempt (at) concealing their responsibilities," the commission said.
