genocide
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A man accused of offences relating to the 1994 Rwanda genocide will remain in custody unless he pays the court a £100,000 guarantee.
From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2026
She and her family left Cambodia in 1979 to escape the genocide committed by the brutal Khmer Rouge regime and settled in Chicago.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026
I’m not entirely convinced that the term genocide, coined in 1944, properly applies to more than one crime in history, the Holocaust, but Myanmar’s campaign against the Rohingyas might qualify to a reasonable person.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026
A Rwandan man, who has been living in north London, has been charged with offences relating to the 1994 genocide in Rwanda.
From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026
The museum focuses on stereotypes, prejudice, genocide, the history of intolerance.
From "The Freedom Writers Diary" by The Freedom Writers
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It also commemorates the millions of people outside of the Jewish faith who were murdered through Nazi persecution and those targeted in more recent genocides.
From BBC ● Jan. 26, 2025
Simon said people may have misunderstood the center’s intention as it began work on developing curriculum to teach about other genocides.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 24, 2024
In addition to survivor testimony from the Holocaust, it has included personal accounts of the genocides that took place in Armenia in 1915-1916, in Cambodia in the 1970s and in Rwanda in the 1990s.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 5, 2023
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
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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