Raphael Lemkin , who coined the term '' genocide '' , was directly influenced by the story of this massacre . The Simele massacre inspired Lemkin to create the concept of " Genocide " . In 1933 , Lemkin made a presentation to the Legal Council of the League of Nations conference on international criminal law in Madrid , for which he prepared an essay on the Crime of Barbarity as a crime against international law . The concept of the crime , which later evolved into the idea of genocide , was based the Simele massacre , the Armenian Genocide and the Jewish Holocaust
Armenian Genocide
Armenian Genocide
Assyrian independence movement