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Raphel Lemkin a lawyer, linguist, scholar and activist, devoted his life to a fundamental question: Why is it a crime for one man to murder another, but not for a government to kill a million?� Lemkin coined the term genocide, and then spent the remainder of his days campaigning to protect ethnic, racial, religious and national groups. From childhood, Lemkin studied and was deeply affected by the long history of the intentional destruction of particular groups. A Polish Jew who lost most of his family in the Holocaust, Lemkin was committed to making the world confront these acts.