Genocide might be one of the most hard-hitting words in the entire world. Coined by Polish-Jewish lawyer Raphael Lemkin in 1944, the word combined the Greek word "geno" (tribe) with the Latin word "cide" (killing) to create a new way to describe the deliberate and systematic destruction of a people. Upon formation in 1946, the United Nations made it a crime under international law and specifically defined what constitutes a genocide with 1948's Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (CPPCG).Read full article
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