In 1915-1920, the first modern genocide was conducted by the Ottoman Empire's successor, Turkey, against the Armenian people. about 1.5 million Armenians were killed/deported according to Quartz Media. In the article, two individuals from the now Ukrainian city Lviv coined the term and meanings of Genocide and the ideas of criminal actions against humanity as a whole. Hersch Lauterpacht and Raphael Lemkin were two Jews who had survived the Holocaust of World War II and were able to bring the idea of human rights and criminal justice to the international community. While high ranking officers of the Nazi party and of the Empire of Japan were convicted of crimes against humanity, as well as war crimes, none were charged with genocide. the idea of Human rights is respected by most developed countries and crimes against state, community or other bodies can be enforced and punished within a state, yet convicting individuals or states remains difficult to do to this day, in part because of sovereignty of states and a lack of ability to enforce international laws. This becomes apparent with the Rwanda Genocide in 1994 and in Myanmar today.
Richard Burgis
Link to article:
https://qz.com/1116015/a-small-city-in-ukraine-gave-the-world-the-concepts-of-genocide-and-crimes-against-humanity/
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