'genocidal' is a correct word in written English and it is used to describe something or someone that is involved in or capable of committing genocide
Example: The international community was horrified by the genocidal actions of the dictator, who ordered the systematic killings of a specific ethnic group in his country.
Yet before last year, when four suspects were indicted for genocide, most murders by his homeland's communist tyrants were not seen as genocidal in the legal sense, because killers and victims belonged to the same ethnic and religious group.
Nothing, however, could have prepared me for the harrowing narrative that Mlalazi vividly presents, allowing the reader to live – and in some instances, relive – the atrocities of the genocidal Gukurahundi killings of the 1980s.
We have to remain apolitical and fight the lot of them, because their policies are nothing short of genocidal … They are trying to kill us off".
Thus the right are heard to argue that fascism copied communism: before becoming a fascist, Mussolini was a socialist; Hitler, too, was a National Socialist; concentration camps and genocidal violence were features of the Soviet Union a decade before Nazis resorted to them; the annihilation of the Jews has a clear precedent in the annihilation of the class enemy, etc.
Peter Hain, the former cabinet minister and close ally of Ed Miliband who helped to defeat the government last year on Syria, said: "The genocidal attacks by Isis are in the same category as Kosovo 1999 and Sierra Leone 2000.
But the evidence of the government's genocidal intent is overwhelming, coming as it does from appalled German and Italian diplomats and neutral Americans, to whom the Young Turk leaders admitted that they were going to eliminate "the Armenian problem" by eliminating the Armenians.
I've had three years of therapy after the genocidal war.
The Germans – and Norwegians – who waved flags in support of the Nazis didn't see themselves as followers of genocidal sadists.
Film fans may recall Banastre Tarleton as the model for genocidal maniac Colonel Tavington in Mel Gibson's absurd American independence drama The Patriot.
Resident claim they are under "genocidal attack".
