Read the quote by Raphael Lemkin. [Genocide is the] criminal intent to destroy or to cripple permanently a human group. The acts
are directed against groups as such, and individuals are selected for destruction only because they belong to these groups. —Raphael Lemkin What is most significant about this quote by Raphael Lemkin? A. Raphael Lemkin’s definition was the accepted version out of many. B. Raphael Lemkin’s definition was not accepted until after the Holocaust. C. Raphael Lemkin spoke these words on his death bed. D. Raphael Lemkin spoke these words to the United Nations in 1945.
The correct answer is A) Raphael Lemkin’s definition was the accepted version out of many.
The most significant about this quote by Raphael Lemkin is "Raphael Lemkin’s definition was the accepted version out of many."
A notable Russian lawyer, Raphael Lemkin (1900-1959) was a lawyer that used the term "Genocide" for the first time in 1944. He was so interested in the prosecution of the guilty people that caused the Armenian Genocide in 1915 and that ended until 1917. When he was a college student, he became shocked when he studied the Armenian Genocide and the reaction of the Armenian people that decided to assassinate Turkish leader Talaat Pasha.
Lemkin was interested in following the case of the Ukrainian Great Famine in 1953, considering it as another Genocide committed by the government of the Soviet Union.
Cotton was a very important and special crop in the South because it was one thing they can actually trade with other countries. They could even trade cotton with the North.
