article_snippet.sent: Genocide is defined as the 'deliberate and systematic extermination of a national, racial, political, or cultural group.'
article_snippet.sent: Genocide was apparently coined by Polish-born US jurist Raphael Lemkin in Polish-born US jurist Raphael Lemkin work 'Axis Rule in Occupied Europe' in reference to the Nazi extermination of the Jews.
article_snippet.sent: The word literally means 'killing a tribe' from the Greek 'genos' meaning 'race' or 'kind' Polish-born US jurist Raphael Lemkin wrote that: 'It is intended to signify a coordinated plan of different actions aimed at the destruction of essential foundations of the life of national groups, with the aim of annihilating the groups themselves.'
article_snippet.sent: Thanks to Lemkin's campaigning work, the UN General Assembly adopted the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide on December 9, 1948.