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Starvation Genocide and the Triumph of Raphael Lemkin

Today, in the 21st century, most people are aware of the term genocide. However, few people are aware that this term only entered the English language in the 1940s, as a result of the dedicated work of a brilliant and successful man who deprived himself of a private family life so that he could be f...

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Autor principal: Weisz, George M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Rambam Health Care Campus 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9049151/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35290179
http://dx.doi.org/10.5041/RMMJ.10466
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Sumario:Today, in the 21st century, most people are aware of the term genocide. However, few people are aware that this term only entered the English language in the 1940s, as a result of the dedicated work of a brilliant and successful man who deprived himself of a private family life so that he could be free to fight for his ideas. Although Raphael Lemkin was instrumental in the recognition of genocide by the United Nations, he died too early and was buried with no honor. This paper reviews the life and work of Raphael Lemkin, and his triumph in seeing genocide recognized as a crime.