By Endalew Lijalem Introduction Genocide – or ‘barbarism’ as it was called before the term ‘genocide’ was first coined by a Polish lawyer Raphäel Lemkin in 1944 in his book Axis Rule in Occupied Europe2 – is one of the heinous crimes of humanity. History tells us that genocide has been part of long-term human experience that occurred in various parts of the globe and in different types of civilizations and cultures – including early settler genocide and modern time genocide.3 The massacre of the North American Indigenous Indians (at the hands of European settlers in the 18th and 19th
Read More →
