Raphael Lemkin
Polish lawyer
Died when: 59 years 65 days (710 months)Star Sign: Cancer
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Raphael Lemkin (Polish: Rafal Lemkin; 24 June 1900 – 28 August 1959) was a Polish lawyer who was best known for coining the term "genocide" and initiating the Genocide Convention, an interest spurred on after learning about the Armenian genocide and finding out that no international laws existed to prosecute the Ottoman leaders who had perpetrated these crimes.
Lemkin coined genocide in 1943 or 1944 from genos (Greek: ????? génos, "family, clan, tribe, race, stock, kin") and -cide (Latin: -cidium, "killing").
He became interested in war crimes after reading about the 1921 trial of Soghomon Tehlirian for the assassination of Talaat Pasha.
He recognized the fate of Armenians as one of the most significant genocides of the 20th century.
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