Difference between Riots and Pogrom

RIOTS AND POGROM

The first carries the appearance of spontaneous, intergroup mass action, the second of

deliberately organized—and especially—state-supported killings and the

destruction of property of a targeted group.

pogrom is a riot aimed at persecution or massacre of a particular ethnic or

 religious group, usually jews while holocaust is a sacrifice that is

completely burned to ashes.

difference between massacre and pogrom

is that massacre is the intentional killing of a considerable number of

human beings, under circumstances of atrocity or cruelty, or contrary to

the norms of civilized people while pogrom is a riot aimed at persecution

or massacre of a particular ethnic or religious group, usually jews.

 A massacre kills everyon in a small group. For example. Custer's group of

men were massacred at Little Big Horn,

Genocide is the systematic extermination of a race of people. Holocaust,

although taken by the Jewish people to showcase what happened to them,

can be thought of as Genocide to the 10th power, owing to the massive

scope of the actions

A pogrom does not necessarily kill all the people, but it certainly drives

 them from your land

RIOTS AND POGROM

The first carries the

appearance of spontaneous, intergroup mass action, the second of

deliberately organized—and especially—state-supported killings and the

destruction of property of a targeted group.

Genocide and Holocaust

1.Both genocide and holocaust are the most heinous crimes against humanity that can be perpetrated.

2.They both involved the mass extermination of a group of people because of

 racial or religious characteristics.

3.Genocide is the general term for this atrocity whereas holocaust

specifically refers to Hitler’s extermination of the Jew