Genocide, a 20th Century term2 but a practice as old as humanity, has undergone numerous interpretations and many names. So it was, too, with the Croatian Ustaše genocide aimed at Serbs during World War II. Significantly, with the post-World War II Ustaše movement and the modern Oromo radical movements, there are religious and political triggers. Linguistic Roots of the Modern Oromo Secessionist MovementThe build-up of radical Oromo irredentism has been underway, then, for almost a half-century. Raphael Lemkin (June 24, 1900-August 28, 1959), a lawyer of Polish-Jewish descent, is attributed with coining the term “genocide”, and initiating the Genocide Convention.

Source: Ethiopian News August 12, 2020 18:00 UTC