persecuted

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Persecuted for their faith, many fled their homelands over the years, escaping genocide and war to arrive in safe countries like Australia.

From BBC • Apr. 17, 2024

Persecuted as an ethnic minority in their ancestral lands in China, the Hmong fled first to the mountains of Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 25, 2023

Persecuted by the Nazis and carefully watched by the Communist secret police in the former East Germany, the group struggled for decades to be given equivalent status to Germany’s other religious communities.

From New York Times • Mar. 10, 2023

Museum of the Holocaust is staging an important exhibition entitled “Venerated, Persecuted, Forgotten: Victims of Nazism at FC Bayern Munich.”

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 3, 2019

“That is my least concern; I am, by a course of strange events, become the most miserable of mortals. Persecuted and tortured as I am and have been, can death be any evil to me?”

From "Frankenstein" by Mary Shelley