genocides

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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

So far, the center has speakers lined up from the Rwandan and Cambodian genocides and is working to include Native voices.

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

There have always been monuments to commemorate the loss of life from calamitous events: wars, genocides, terrorist attacks.

From New York Times • Aug. 10, 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