DEFFINITION: Genocide is the deliberate and systematic destruction, in whole or in part, of an ethnic, racial, religious, or national group. (The term “genocide” was coined by Raphael Lemkin (1900–1959), a Polish-Jewish legal scholar, in 1944, firstly from the Latin “gens, gentis,” meaning “birth, race, stock, kind” or the Greek root génos (γένος) (same meaning);Continue reading “GENOCIDE”
Kate Eileen Shannon 