So, someone has a different color skin, a different religion, a different ethnicity! People are everywhere and there is no good reason to kill each other in mass, because of different color, different belief, and different custom. However, modern society has perpetrated multiple genocides where thousands of innocents- children, elderly, men, women- have been killed for no reason other than a color, a belief, a custom. Established in 1944 by a Jewish lawyer Raphael Lemkin, the word genocide was first used (“What is Genocide”). At this time the Nazis were clearing out the Jewish people in Germany (Kiernan). Lemkin was the first person who had a theory that genocide was not a war crime. Geno is Greek for race, while cide is Latin for killing (“What
