What Is Most Significant About This Quote By Raphael Lemkin?

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What Is Most Significant About This Quote By Raphael Lemkin?

nal intent to destroy or to cripple permanently a human group. The acts are directed against groups as such, and individuals are selected for destruction only because they belong to these groups. ÑRaphael Lemkin What is most significant about this quote by Raphael Lemkin?
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Raphael Lemkin's definition was the accepted version. (Raphael Lemkin was the first person to use the word "genocide.") Raphael Lemkin spoke these words on his death bed. Raphael Lemkin spoke these words to the United Nations in 1945. Notes: -Raphael Lemkin coined the word "genocide" before the world knew the horrors of Auschwitz, Buchenwald, Bergen-Belsen and Dachau. -Lemkin identified Hitler's abominable intention, and labelled it "genocide", a hybrid word consisting of the Greek prefix genos, meaning race, and the Latin suffix cide, meaning killing.

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