Text Box: Big East & Pac 10 Genocide Unit
What is genocide?Text Box: According to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (www.ushmm.org): The term “genocide” did not exist before 1944. It is a very specific term, referring to violent crimes committed against groups with the intent to destroy the existence of the group. Human rights, as laid out in the U.S. Bill of Rights or the 1948 United nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights, concern the rights of individuals. In 1944, a Polish-Jewish lawyer named Raphael Lemkin (1900-1959) sought to describe Nazi policies of systematic murder, including the destruction of the European Jews. He formed the word “genocide” by combining the following: geno-, from the Greek word for race or tribe cide-, from the Latin word for kill Text Box: “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere...Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.” ~ Martin Luther King Jr. Text Box: To learn more about Genocide CLICK THE ICON!