What is genocide you might ask, well it's in the eye of the beholder. By definition it is “the deliberate killing of a large group of people, especially those of a particular ethnic group or nation.” Genocide according to Google is a noun. Some of the most famous genocides are the Holocaust, the Bosnian Genocide, the Armenian Genocide, and the Rwanda Genocide. This article will go into an in-depth description of the genocide, how it is brought about, and a full explanation of the four genocides listed above. Genocide is a fairly new term. The word was created in 1944 by Raphael Remkin (1900-1959), also Polish, a lawyer and Jew. He tried to create a specific word to describe what was happening in Europe with the Second World War and the massacre of the Jewish people. Therefore name, like many of the current words derived from ancient Greek and Latin. 'Geno' is Greek and means race or tribe, 'cide' is Latin and means to kill, or kill. the following year genocide was used as a word to describe crimes against humanity, but not as a law. It wasn't until December 9th,...
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