The word GENOCIDE is relatively new. It was coined in 1944 by the author Raphael Lemkin, in order to describe
the act of intentional and systematic killing, destroying a whole race, national ethnic, and religious group of people.
The term genocide has been first applied to the Holocaust and later to any other mass killings.
Genocides have occurred throughout the human history.
The Holocaust was the largest recorded Genocide, followed by Stalin’s USSR mass executions,
