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Raphael Lemkin

This person was nominated for the Nobel Prize five times and coined the term "genocide."

Major General Romeo Dallaire

This person was the commander of the UN peacekeeping mission in Rwanda when the Tutsi genocide began.

Bob Dole

This person was a Republican Senator from Kansas at the time of the Bosnian and Srebrenica genocides.

William Proxmire

This person was a Democratic Senator from Wisconsin who lobbied the U.S. to ratify the genocide convention and gave a daily speech about genocide on the Senate floor from 1967 to 1986.

Slobodan Milosevic

This leader of Serbia during the 1990s orchestrated three genocides in the Balkan region.

Pol Pot

This person was the leader of the Khmer Rouge during the Cambodian genocide in the 1970s.

Saddam Hussein

This person was the leader of Iraq during the Kurdish genocide.

Adolf Hitler

This person killed over six million European Jews and...

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