PSCI 3802 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Raphael Lemkin, United Nations General Assembly, Genocide Convention
21 Oct 2018
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He used the term barbaric which did not receive much visibility mostly because it was a moral term. He emigrated to the us when his parents were killed by the nazis in poland: word geno means race or tribe in greek and cide is latin for killing. In other words, it"s killing related to race or tribe: definition: A coordinated plan of different actions aiming at the destruction of essential foundations of the life of national groups, with the aim of annihilating the groups themselves . It is related to cultural groups within the national level. It refers to a range of activities that aim at eliminating whole people: there is an organization that is deliberate and systematic, anything that destroys the political, cultural and social life of groups. It is not just about random killing of groups but rather there is an intention.
