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The term "genocide" was coined by a Polish-Jewish lawyer named Raphael Lemkin in 1943, during the Holocaust. Lemkin studied the massacres of Armenians in Turkey during World War I and other acts of mass violence throughout history. He combined the Greek word "genos," which means race or tribe, with the Latin word "cide," which means killing, to create the term "genocide." He used this term to describe the intentional destruction of a racial, religious, or national group, and its applications were later adopted by the United Nations in 1948, which defined it as a crime under international law. Raphael Lemkin's work on defining and criminalizing genocide has been widely recognized as a significant contribution to international human rights law.
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