IN 1951, six years after the end of World War II, at the urging of Raphael Lemkin, the United Nations adopted a five-point definition of genocide. It wasn't just the Holocaust that led Lemkin to demand that the world recognize as a crime systematic cultural and racial annihilations and atrocities, it was also the massacre of more than 1.5 million ... (Full article: 364 words)
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