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Genocide in the Twentieth Century
Even though the word "Genocide" was not coined until 1944 by Raphael Lemkin, it had been occurring for centuries. This paper will touch on three of the most heinous cases of genocide from across the world; Armenians, Nanking, and Darfur. There have been many other atrocities in the past century that included genocide such as Stalin's famine of the Ukraine, the Nazi Holocaust, Mao Zedong's rule in China and Idi Amin's attack on Uganda, but to keep it short I will stick to the three cases previously noted. Genocide is the conscious and systematic extermination of a racial, political or cultural group. It is one of the most evil acts of humankind that could ever be thought of because it encompasses so much more than what is stated in any definition. Genocide's details include rape, torture, famine and slavery, but there is more to it than just that, only if a person is lucky will they receive death. Corrupt leaders utilized misleading......

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