Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Ռաֆայել Լեմկին" in Armenian language version.
...when Raphael Lemkin coined the word genocide in 1944 he cited the 1915 annihilation of Armenians as a seminal example of genocide"
Lemkin's interest in the subject dates to his days as a student at Lvov University, when he intently followed attempts to prosecute the perpetration of the massacres of the Armenians
Although it is often assumed that Lemkin created the word to specifically address the Holocaust, his original intention was to create a term that would describe an ancient military tactic revived by the Nazis.
