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leva [86]
3 years ago
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Define GENOCIDE. How did the word come into existence?

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tino4ka555 [31]3 years ago
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Genocide

Noun :

Definition - The deliberate killing of a large number of people from a particular nation or ethic group with the aim of destroying that nation or group .

A term coined by Raphael Lemkin in his 1994 book Axis Rule in Occupied Europe, hybrid word geno-cide is a combination of Greek word genos (“race , people”) and the Latin suffix - Caedo (“act of killing”)


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