as in genocide
the organized killing of many helpless people usually because of their race or religion
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Under his tenure, Hindu mobs carried out a pogrom there, killing at least 800 Muslims.
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Hartosh Singh Bal, Foreign Affairs, 12 Apr. 2024
World leaders condemn attacks as 'antisemitic' The riots prompted widespread condemnation from leaders around the world, some of whom characterized them as antisemitic attacks and likened them to pogroms, violent attacks on Jews, before and during the Holocaust.
—Cybele Mayes-Osterman, USA TODAY, 13 Nov. 2024
The pogroms—incidents of blood, rape, and murder that took the lives of tens and tens of thousands of Jews over centuries in Europe's east—drove them west and to America.
—Nina Turner, Newsweek, 29 Oct. 2024
So Maryam fled to neighboring Chad and is one of more than 10 million Sudanese who have been forcibly displaced since a civil war began last year in the country and ignited pogroms against Black African ethnic groups like hers.
—Nicholas Kristof, The Mercury News, 21 Sep. 2024
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Hartosh Singh Bal, Foreign Affairs, 12 Apr. 2024
World leaders condemn attacks as 'antisemitic' The riots prompted widespread condemnation from leaders around the world, some of whom characterized them as antisemitic attacks and likened them to pogroms, violent attacks on Jews, before and during the Holocaust.
—Cybele Mayes-Osterman, USA TODAY, 13 Nov. 2024
The pogroms—incidents of blood, rape, and murder that took the lives of tens and tens of thousands of Jews over centuries in Europe's east—drove them west and to America.
—Nina Turner, Newsweek, 29 Oct. 2024
So Maryam fled to neighboring Chad and is one of more than 10 million Sudanese who have been forcibly displaced since a civil war began last year in the country and ignited pogroms against Black African ethnic groups like hers.
—Nicholas Kristof, The Mercury News, 21 Sep. 2024
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Here’s everything to know about the real-life massacre that inspired the six-episode series — and how faithful the dramatization is to the historical event.—
Emily Blackwood,
People.com,
13 Jan. 2025
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Moreover, although the 1921 report asserts that the massacre (then called a riot) was not the result of 'racial feeling,' perpetrators of the massacre overtly expressed and acted upon racial bias.—
Sabina Ghebremedhin,
ABC News,
11 Jan. 2025
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With dead-eyed thoroughness, their avatars kill around 100 characters a day — slaughters that simultaneously advance the siblings’ online progress and strengthen their real-life bond.—
Jeannette Catsoulis,
New York Times,
9 Jan. 2025
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The events are loosely based on the Mountain Meadows Massacre, which saw Mormon militiamen of the Utah Territorial Militia, or Nauvoo Legion, slaughter at least 120 members of the Baker-Fancher wagon train.—
Erik Kain,
Forbes,
9 Jan. 2025
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In addition to the horror of the holocaust, the Institute also needed to represent the idea of freedom and some kind of passageway between the couple.—
Bill Desowitz,
IndieWire,
8 Jan. 2025
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However, have the protesters ever marched against the holocaust in Syria, where more than 600,000 people were killed to keep a tyrant in power?—
Sun Sentinel Editorial Board,
Sun Sentinel,
18 Jan. 2024
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Painted on slabs of vinyl affixed to the brick, the mural — a large rectangle about the size of the building’s ground floor — featured a background that appeared to depict mass graves, weeping mothers, drones and other scenes of carnage in Gaza.—
Andrew Lapin,
Sun Sentinel,
14 Jan. 2025
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Los Angeles will remain under a Red Flag Warning on Thursday as multiple fires across the county have caused unprecedented and historic carnage and destruction, wasting away 45 square miles, amounting to the size of the city of San Francisco.—
Kevin Dolak,
The Hollywood Reporter,
9 Jan. 2025
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