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Exactly 20 years ago, the sitting government in Rwanda commenced a genocide against minority Tutsi and moderate Hutu populations.

Soviet Russia annexed Ukraine in 1922, after a war that had commenced in 1917, when the Bolsheviks took Moscow.

In May, just two weeks after production had commenced on 12 Years A Slave, the cameras started rolling on All Is by My Side.

The trial commenced, and little, if anything seemed to break in the way of the defendants.

I commenced to write a piece suggesting that the Sandy Hook killer may have been acting out of some kind of homicidal pedophilia.

The proceedings of the day commenced with divine service, performed by Unitarian and Baptist ministers.

The embankment or road-bed was commenced by gigantic piling, and is very broad and substantial.

Three days before these tempests commenced they sighted the capitana, but never saw her again.

In Cuba its culture commenced in 1580, and from this and the other islands large quantities were shipped to Europe.

Seeing that this would not be conceded, he commenced to persecute Christians openly and secretly.