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Atrocity crimes

  • GenocidePolish-Jewish lawyer Raphael Lemkin coined the term genocide between 1941 and 1943. He combined the Greek word genos, meaning race or people, with the Latin…
  • War crimeA U.S. soldier observed victims of the Malmedy massacre on the 17th of December 1944 in Belgium, where 84 American prisoners of war were murdered by…