Ethnocide Project

    Raising awareness and developing laws to combat ethnocide in the United States and around the world.

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    What is Ethnocide?

    Ethnocide is the destruction of culture while keeping the people. The term was first coined by Raphael Lemkin (pictured) in 1944. Lemkin was a Polish Jew and celebrated human rights attorney who escaped Europe for America as the Nazi Party rose to power. While in America he worked to raise awareness of the horrors befalling his people.

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