1. read the quote by raphael lemkin.

genocide is the criminal intent to destroy or to cripple permanently a human group. the acts are directed against groups as such, and individuals are selected for destruction only because they belong to these groups.

what is most significant about this quote by raphael lemkin?

raphael lemkin’s definition was the accepted version out of many.
raphael lemkin’s definition was not accepted until after the holocaust.
raphael lemkin spoke these words on his death bed.
raphael lemkin spoke these words to the united nations in 1945.

2. on december 9, 1948, in the shadow of the holocaust and in no small part due to the tireless efforts of lemkin himself, the united nations approved the convention on the prevention and punishment of the crime of genocide. this convention establishes "genocide” as an international crime, which signatory nations “undertake to prevent and punish.” it defines genocide as:

genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:

killing members of the group;
causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
forcibly transferring children of the group to another group