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...term genocide is young in the context of human conflict. It was coined in 1944 by Polish lawyer Raphael Lemkin, who combined the Greek genos (race) with the Latin cide (to kill). Despite its murderous implications, the word, as defined by the CPPCG, does not necessarily always involve the killing of individuals. Genocide denotes crimes committed "with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group." Forced sterilization or other measures designed to prevent births, the removal of children from a group, or conditions of life inflicted on a group to bring about...
...Raphael Lemkin, the man who invented the word “genocide,” did so in part because he could not find a word to describe the horrors of the Armenian episode. Yet in October 2007 Congress—the very same legislature that inveighed against Holocaust denial when it was easy—simply refused to officially recognize the Armenian Genocide in a non-binding resolution. Upon hearing the news that the House was planning a vote, Turkey threatened to cancel arms deals and revoke their support for American air units operating in Iraq. The U.S government...
...another Lincoln, McKinley or Kennedy assassination. The Manchurian Candidate, of blessed memory, established the format; The Parallax View, Three Days of the Condor, Winter Kills, JFK, Conspiracy Theory and last year's BBC fake-umentary Death of a President all ran cunning variations on it. Shooter, written by Jonathan Lemkin from Stephen Hunter's novel Point of Impact and directed by Antoine Fuqua, is an honorable rather than exceptional addition to the canon...
...Genocide Convention prohibits attempts to destroy "in whole or in part" national, ethnic or religious groups "as such." Although Lemkin's law grew directly out of the Holocaust, it did not define genocide as the attempted extermination of an entire group. Lemkin, who lost 49 members of his family, including his parents, to the Final Solution, knew that if extermination were the threshold for a response, action would inevitably come too late...
...horrors in Darfur are just what Lemkin had in mind. Sudan's government and its Janjaweed militias are systematically expelling Darfur's non-Arab population, murdering tens of thousands and permitting widespread gang rape--to make what they say will be lighter-skinned babies and ensure that the non-Arab tribes will be too degraded to return to their homes...