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Genocide comes from ancient times. To the modern persons this perception largely stems from the terrible events which took place during World War Two. The word itself was first coined in 1944 CE by the Polish writer Raphael Lemkin who constructed the word by combining 'geno-', from the Greek word for race or tribe, with '-cide', from the Latin word for killing.

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