genocide
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Instead, he emphasised his past work abroad, in the aftermath of genocide in Rwanda and as a former adviser to the anti-Moscow former Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili.
From Barron's ● Oct. 11, 2026
Pillay’s career includes challenging apartheid in South Africa and serving on the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, where she helped establish legal precedents recognizing sexual violence as an act of genocide.
From Salon ● Oct. 10, 2026
Pillay's work had been "instrumental in ensuring that war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide are prosecuted", said the chair of the Norwegian Nobel Committee Jørgen Watne Frydnes.
From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026
“This year’s laureate has been instrumental in ensuring that war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide are prosecuted.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
The United Nations now defines genocide as an act, or acts, “committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group.”
From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
They say going to abandoned nuclear plants or countries where genocides took place is a way to understand the harsh realities of current political turmoil, climate calamities, war and the growing threat of authoritarianism.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 29, 2022
Monuments have long commemorated the loss of life from calamitous events: wars, genocides, terrorist attacks.
From New York Times ● Aug. 11, 2022
Kim, 47, knew that anyone there of his age or older had survived one of the most brutal genocides of the 20th century.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 12, 2022
The two genocides of the 1990s - in central Africa and the former Yugoslavia - showed what happened when the Security Council was challenged to live up to words of the UN charter.
From BBC ● Apr. 8, 2022
She said a local gallery in Rochester, called the Visual Studies Workshop, had been showing photography from genocides around the world, and perhaps we could do an exhibit there.
From "How Dare the Sun Rise" by Sandra Uwiringiyimana
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