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Raphael Lemkin

Lawyer of Polish-Jewish descent (1900-1959)

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Dec 13, 2025
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"Holodomor was a mass artificial famine organized by the USSR leadership, constituting genocide of Ukrainians"

The Holodomor was a catastrophic, largely man-made famine in Soviet Ukraine during 1932–33 that killed millions; Ukrainian and some Western demographers estimate about 3.3–3.9 million Ukrainian deaths...

Nov 16, 2025
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Can a conflict be classified as both a war and genocide, and what implications does this have for international intervention?

A single conflict can legally and historically be described as both a war (an armed conflict governed by international humanitarian law) and a genocide (a crime defined by intent to destroy a protecte...