It was a Polish lawyer, Rafael Lemkin (1900-1959), who coined the term ‘genocide.” It’s a manufactured word from the Greek meaning the killing (cide) of a clan or a tribe (geno). Lemkin, a student of history, was moved by the wholesale…
It was a Polish lawyer, Rafael Lemkin (1900-1959), who coined the term ‘genocide.” It’s a manufactured word from the Greek meaning the killing (cide) of a clan or a tribe (geno). Lemkin, a student of history, was moved by the wholesale…