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English — USSubject
- History
- Social Studies
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9–12Duration
One 50-min class period- Genocide
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In his early adulthood, Raphael Lemkin did not set out to change the world. He was inspired to act by his own outrage when he learned about the crimes the Ottoman Empire committed against Armenians during World War I- and outraged that the perpetrators of these crimes went unpunished. He could not believe that there was no legal precedent for punishing perpetrators of such terrible crimes against humanity.
The purpose of this lesson is to help students understand Lemkin's outrage so that they can identify what motivated Lemkin to take action.
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