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Konsep jenayah ini pertama kali digambarkan secara jelas oleh seorang peguam dan cendekiawan perundangan [[Poland]], [[Raphael Lemkin]], pada tahun [[1944]] dalam bukunya ''[[Axis Rule in Occupied Europe]]'' yang diterbitkan di [[Amerika Syarikat]] - kata yang menggambarkan jenayah ini, ''genocide'' diambil hasil gabungan kata [[bahasa Yunani]] γένος ''genos'' ('ras', 'bangsa' atau 'rakyat') dan kata [[bahasa Latin]] ''caedere'' ('pembunuhan').<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300186963/totally-unofficial|title=Totally Unofficial: The Autobiography of Raphael Lemkin|publisher=Yale University Press|year=2013|isbn=9780300186963|place=New Haven and London|pages=19–20}}[https://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10008187 The Armenian Genocide (1915–16): Overview], ''[[United States Holocaust Memorial Museum]]''</ref>{{sfn|Ishay|2008}}{{sfn|Jenkins|2008|p=140}}<ref name="cnn">{{Citation|last=Hyde|first=Jennifer|title=Polish Jew gave his life defining, fighting genocide|url=http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/11/13/sbm.lemkin.profile/index.html|publisher=[[CNN]]|date=2008-12-02|accessdate=2008-12-02}}</ref><ref name="USHMMWhatis?">{{cite web|url=https://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10007043|title=What is Genocide?|work=Holocaust Encyclopedia|publisher=United States Holocaust Memorial Museum|accessdate=7 February 2017|quote=In 1944, Polish Jewish lawyer Raphael Lemkin coined the term "genocide" in a book documenting Nazi policies of systematically destroying national and ethnic groups, including the mass murder of European Jews}}</ref>