Raphael Lemkin Quotes About Genocide

• Genocide has two phases: one, destruction of the national pattern of the oppressed group; the other, the imposition of the national pattern of the oppressor. This imposition, in turn, may be made upon the oppressed population which is allowed to remain or upon the territory alone, after removal of the population and the colonization by the oppressor's own nationals.

  Raphael Lemkin

  Two, Groups, Population

  Raphael Lemkin (2008). “Axis Rule in Occupied Europe”, p.79, The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.

• By genocide we mean the destruction of a nation or of an ethnic group.

  Raphael Lemkin

  Mean, Groups, Genocide

  Axis Rule in Occupied Europe preface (1944).

• Genocide is not war! It is more dangerous than war!

  Raphael Lemkin

  War, Genocide, Dangerous

• I became interested in genocide, because it happened so many times. It happened to the Armenians and after the Armenians, Hitler took action.

  Raphael Lemkin

  Action, Genocide, Armenians

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