Preserving memory of the Bosnian genocide
(07/11/21 6:44pm)
When Raphael Lemkin, a Polish lawyer of Jewish descent and a former Duke professor, coined the term genocide and authored the UN Genocide Convention, he had high hopes that this legal document would serve as an outline for the prevention of further genocides. While the convention, or its signatories, failed in preventing the post-Holocaust genocides, it at least served as a legal framework for punishment of some of the worst war criminals who walked on this planet.