genocide
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He, like Karasira, was a survivor of the 1994 Rwandan genocide, and critic of the ruling RPF party.
From BBC • May 7, 2026
This enables visitors to ask questions that prompt real-time responses from pre-recorded video interviews with Holocaust survivors and other witnesses to genocide.
From Los Angeles Times • May 4, 2026
The Lakenheath Alliance for Peace, which organised the protest, said the seven had been arrested wearing clothing with the message: "We oppose genocide, we support Palestine Action."
From Barron's • Apr. 5, 2026
The diplomatic dispute arises from the ambiguous role that Rwanda, best known to many Americans for the 1994 genocide, now plays as a regional strongman.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 1, 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
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