Today is International Genocide Commemoration Day, where we remember the victims of past genocides and make it our mission to prevent future genocides.
The term 'genocide' literally means "killing of a people" and was coined by the Polish lawyer Raphael Lemkin, who was also the driving force behind the adoption of the 1948 Genocide Convention.
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