Genocide has become an official term used in international relations. The word genocide was not in use before 1944. Before this, in 1941, <answer>Winston Churchill</answer> described the mass killing of Russian prisoners of war and civilians as "a crime without a name". In that year, a Polish-Jewish lawyer named Raphael Lemkin, described the policies of systematic murder founded by the Nazis as genocide. The word genocide is the combination of the Greek prefix geno- (meaning tribe or race) and caedere (the Latin word for to kill). The word is defined as a specific set of violent crimes that are committed against a certain group with the attempt to remove the entire group from existence or to destroy them.
Who referred to acts of genocide in 1941?
Winston Churchill