United Nations and Raphael Lemkin

Raphael Lemkin: In the aftermath of the Holocaust, the systematic extermination of six million Jews, the United Nations passed Resolution 260, formally known as the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. , according to Winnipeg Free Press. It was the brainchild of a lawyer and intellectual named Raphael Lemkin, a Lithuanian-Polish Jew who fought against the Nazis during the Second World War and actually coined the term genocide by combining the Latin words for family and killing. A boy displaced by fighting in South Sudan. Despite the world's resolve following the Holocaust, systemic killing continues unabated. The Genocide Convention was supposed to stop any systematic effort to destroy any ethnic, religious or cultural group, in whole or in part. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.