Did You know? The figure who coined the term genocide

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Raphael Lemkin (1900 -1959), a polandia-yahudi legal expert, was the figure who coined the term genocide, Lemkin was also the figure behind the formation of the first Human Rights treaty adopted by the UN, namely the 1948 Genocide Convention, where he succeeded in classifying genocide as serious crime under international law. The word "Genocide" comes from the Greek word "Genos" which means race and the Latin word "Cide" which means murder.