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Raphael Lemkin Definition Of Genocide

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Genocide What is Genocide? Many people have a hard time understanding what genocide actually is, is it going against humankind? Killing people for no reason just so you can prove a point to another person for no reason? Or then again could it be simply being against ethnical, racial, religious, or any type of a national gathering? Actually, Genocide is all this joined into one bit of confusion and anger with the intent to destroy an entire group of people. The actual term “Genocide” did not become existent until 1944 when a Jewish Layer name Raphael Lemkin decided to describe the reasoning for the Nazi policies of methodical assassinations. He invented the word genocide by combining the Greek word 'genos ' (race) with the Latin word
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