genocide
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That publication has been a proponent for changing, extending or rejecting the legal definition of genocide enshrined in the 1948 Genocide Convention, formulated by Jewish jurist Raphael Lemkin.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
“She’s still basically on a hero’s journey wanting to get justice for what happened to Remy and for the genocide that she witnessed and that she is a survivor of,” Zann says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026
One consistent narrative, however, even 250 years in, is our country’s inability to reckon with the genocide of Indigenous people that kicked the whole thing off.
From Slate ● Jul. 3, 2026
"I have survived genocide, stigmatization and relentless persecution. And here I am, still standing," he said during the campaign.
From Barron's ● May 25, 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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