Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Лемкин, Рафаэль" in Russian language version.
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.
Lemkin, with the Armenian genocide as a referent, campaigned tirelessly to have the United Nations adopt the Genocide Convention and to recognize genocide as a crime against humanity.
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
Indignant that the perpetrators of the Armenian genocide had largely escaped prosecution, Lemkin, who was a young state prosecutor in Poland, began lobbying in the early 1930s for international law to criminalize the destruction of such groups.
…when Raphael Lemkin coined the word genocide in 1944 he cited the 1915 annihilation of Armenians as a seminal example of genocide
