as in genocide
the organized killing of many helpless people usually because of their race or religion
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So Maryam fled to neighboring Chad and is one of more than 10 million Sudanese who have been forcibly displaced since a civil war began last year in the country and ignited pogroms against Black African ethnic groups like hers.
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Nicholas Kristof, The Mercury News, 21 Sep. 2024
Modi still has yet to face any real accountability for enabling an anti-Muslim pogrom in 2002.
—Rasheed Ahmed, TIME, 18 Sep. 2024
In 2003, not long after the Gujarat anti-Muslim pogrom generated global condemnation of Hindu extremism, a group of second-generation Indian-American professionals founded the Hindu American Foundation (HAF).
—Andrew Cockburn, Harper's Magazine, 20 Aug. 2024
Selma, whose mother shared their home, had escaped from Russia as a toddler with her parents, fleeing the pogroms.
—Judith Thurman, The New Yorker, 2 Sep. 2024
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Nicholas Kristof, The Mercury News, 21 Sep. 2024
Modi still has yet to face any real accountability for enabling an anti-Muslim pogrom in 2002.
—Rasheed Ahmed, TIME, 18 Sep. 2024
In 2003, not long after the Gujarat anti-Muslim pogrom generated global condemnation of Hindu extremism, a group of second-generation Indian-American professionals founded the Hindu American Foundation (HAF).
—Andrew Cockburn, Harper's Magazine, 20 Aug. 2024
Selma, whose mother shared their home, had escaped from Russia as a toddler with her parents, fleeing the pogroms.
—Judith Thurman, The New Yorker, 2 Sep. 2024
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Colonists abandoned once promising agricultural settlements, and, in an act of cruel, retaliatory bloodletting, Périer ordered the massacre of the Chaouacha, an innocent tribe uninvolved in the revolt.Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Nov. 2024
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Jones had repeatedly lied and posited baseless conspiracy theories about the Sandy Hook massacre.Todd Spangler, Variety, 26 Nov. 2024
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That age means they were likely headed for slaughter soon, according to Tablante, who said chickens raised for meat are usually sent to slaughterhouses between 6 and 7 weeks depending on the company.Racquel Bazos, Baltimore Sun, 26 Nov. 2024
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The current bird flu outbreak that began in February 2022 has led to the slaughter of more than 111 million birds, mostly egg-laying chickens.Mark Vancleave, Fortune, 26 Nov. 2024
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However, have the protesters ever marched against the holocaust in Syria, where more than 600,000 people were killed to keep a tyrant in power?Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 18 Jan. 2024
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More exotic theories include that the CIA concealed evidence of Soviet complicity in the assassination in the belief that exposure of this would inexorably lead to a nuclear holocaust.Makena Kelly, WIRED, 10 Oct. 2024
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Despite the carnage, Bettencourt Meyers hasn’t refrained from supporting French ventures through her family’s investment firm, Téthys Invest.Prarthana Prakash, Fortune Europe, 28 Nov. 2024
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That would be on top of the carnage already left behind by Hurricane Helene, posing a potential record-breaking path of wreckage.Jeff Cox, CNBC, 8 Oct. 2024
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“Pogrom.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pogrom. Accessed 18 Dec. 2024.
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