Suicide by Government?

Qatar's PM might not quite get the concept of genocide-

"What is happening in Syria is not a civil war but a genocide, a war of extermination with a license to kill by the Syrian government and the international community," he said, according to the official Qatar News Agency.

Whoa, mule. Last I checked, the definition of genocide is

"the deliberate and systematic destruction, in whole or in part, of an ethnic, racial, religious, or national group"

Can a country's government do genocide on itself? Not quite; we might have a bit of religious warfare in play, as the government leans pro-Alwaite, but the government attacks its oppostion, not so much orthodox Shia and Sunni believers.