The term Genocide didn’t exist until 1943, when Polish-Jewish lawyer Raphael Lemkin coined it — pairing the Greek “genos,” meaning race or family, with the Latin “-cidere,” for killing. Raphael Lemkin, as a teenager, paid close attention to the massacre of the Armenian people in the Ottoman Empire in 1915 and spent his life campaigning to make the world acknowledge and prosecute the crime.
Pendant (Amulet) in the Shape of a Human Hand | 7th–6th centuries BC | Yeghvard…
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