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The new technical term "G E N O C ID E " and its cre­
ator Raphael Lemkin
Raphael Lemkin (1900-1959), the man who coined the term
"genocide". He rose to become one of the advisers to the US
Chief Prosecutor R. H. Jackson at the Nuremberg war trials in
1945. Both of them were fully aware of the crimes committed
by the Soviets but neither mentioned a word about them. The
trials dealt only with cases of war guilt only and "genocide" in
times of peace was not punishable under those terms. These circumstances
caused Lemkin to resolve to carry on his campaign
for the establishment of genocide as a crime under international
law.
On D ecem ber 9th 1948, the Convention on the
Prevention and Punishment o f the Crime o f Genocide
was adopted unanimously by the United Nations General
Assembly.
For some time now - even after decades o f silence, they
were still aware o f their guilt - Armenian extremists and
propagandists have been attempting to use the magic
word "genocide" for their own ends. Their intention -
quite apart from the fact that there has never been a
"genocide" committed on the Armenian people - is to dis­
tract the attention o f world opinion at all costs from the
real crimes that were committed.
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Thousands o f Cambodian Christians died as martyrs.
Europe did not react, the UN did not react . . . nobody
cared.
Chodjali
A little Azerbaijani town is annihilated at a stroke by Armenian
soldiery, helped by Soviet irregulars.
This was one of the most terrible occurrences of the end of the
twentieth century, and quite comparable to Srebrenica. But
while the Serbian murderers were with only a few exceptions
soon to be subjected to international law and the object of widespread
contempt, those Armenians responsible for the atrocity
of Chodjali are still free to hold their heads high in the public
sphere and are considered by world opinion as "victims".
Similar events in Ruanda have brought similar results and
reactions. The term "genocide" was already part o f a
"newspeak" (in George Orwell's sense), finally in the
hands o f the Armenian propagandists.
In the years between 1975 and 1979, the period of Pol Pot and
the "Khmer Rouge", up to 2 billion Cambodians were murdered,
the purpose being to extinguish the old Cambodian culture
and to create a "new mankind".