1. What Is Genocide?

2. Raphael Lemkin Reflecting on the Armenian Genocide (1915-1918) 1.5 million Armenians (more than 66% of the population) killed by the Turkish government Armenians wanted to be represented in the government

5. Genocide “geno” Greek meaning “race” or “tribe” “cide” Latin, meaning killing Literally, killing a race or tribe of people.

6. Madrid Conference, 1933 Lemkin drafted a document to deal with cases when a government commits “genocide” Remember the Armenians Beware of Hitler The foreign minister of Poland refused to let him travel Few supported his proposal Lemkin was fired

7. Mass Murderers Didn’t Fear Punishment It's a matter of indifference to me what a weak western European civilization will say about me. Who, after all, speaks today of the annihilation of the Armenians? Adolf Hitler, August 22, 1939

8. It Took World War II for Action “The whole of Europe has been wrecked and trampled down by the mechanical weapons and barbaric fury of the Nazis… As his armies advance, whole districts are exterminated. We are in the presence of a crime without a name.” British Prime Minister Winston Churchill

9. The Moscow Declaration Promised to prosecute those who committed mass murder Drafted by Churchill Signed by Great Britain, the US, and the Soviet Union in 1943.

10. The UN Genocide Convention 1948 unanimously adopted by the United Nations Work started by Lemkin

11. Genocide “…a coordinated plan to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group by killing, causing serious bodily or mental harm, inflicting conditions designed to bring about its destruction, preventing births within the group, or removing children from the group.” United Nations Genocide Convention

12. UN Drafted Resolution “The right to exterminate entire groups which prevailed before the resolution is gone. From now on no government may kill off a large block of its own subjects or citizens of any country with impunity.” The New York Times, January 5, 1947

13. “We can best understand this when we realized how impoverished our culture would be if the peoples doomed by Germany, such as the Jews, had not been permitted to create the Bible, or give birth to an Einstein… if the Poles had not had the opportunity to give to the world a Copernicus, a Chopin, a Curie; the Czechs… a Dvorak; the Greeks, a Plato, and a Socrates; the Russians, a Tolstoy and a Shostakovich.” Raphael Lemkin

14. Genocide: Never again?