| 词汇 | genocide |
| 词源 | genocide. Acts intended to destroy national, ethnic, racial, or religious groups are called genocide, the word based on the Greek genos, “race,” and the Latin cadere, “to kill.” The word was invented by Professor Raphael Lemkin of Duke University and used in the official indictment of Nazi criminals in 1945; three years later the United Nations made genocide a crime against international law. |
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