Raphael Lemkin

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Raphael Lemkin - Looking back at the word Genocide

Author of the word `genocide' - which referred not only to the Jewish Holocaust but also the the Armenian Genocide, when he came up with the concept following the Second World War. `In fact, when Mr. Lemkin coined the term genocide the Armenian events were one of the two archetypes he used in his work'. Mr. Lemkin was Jewish himself.

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