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Wait, what? Did considering genocide more heinous than regular mass murder only start with the end of WWII?
Unfortunately, genocides happen all the time.
But only one of them got big media attention. Which made it the evil.
Cynically speaking: if you want the world to not pay attention to a genocide, (a) don't do it in a first-world country, and (b) don't do it during the war with other side which can make condemning the genocide part of their propaganda, especially if at the end you lose the war.
For that it's worth, the word genocide may been invented to describe what the Nazis did-- anyone have OED access to check for earlier cites?
It existed before, but it's use really picked up after WWII.