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genocides

noun

plural of genocide

as in massacres

the deliberate killing of people who belong to a particular racial, political, or cultural group

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Recent Examples of genocides In what would become one of the largest genocides in Europe since World War II, Bosnian Serb forces began an attack on the Bosniak ethnic group in the town of Srebrenica in Bosnia and Herzegovina. — USA Today, 24 June 2026 Holocaust survivors and local Palm Beach County students joined together for the Legacy of Impact event hosted by inSIGHT Through Education, a program that encourages kindness by using lessons learned from the Holocaust and genocides worldwide. — Jessica Tzikas, Sun Sentinel, 29 Apr. 2026 Most genocides begin with extraordinarily compelling stories—ones that transform neighbors and friends into interlopers, invaders, infections, and infestations. — Sayantani Dasgupta february 24, Literary Hub, 24 Feb. 2026 Thus could Samantha Power berate American governments for their failure to intervene in genocides everywhere. — Victor J. Blue, Harpers Magazine, 23 Nov. 2025 Those who level this charge cheapen the very meaning of genocide and dishonor the victims of actual genocides throughout history. — Oded J K Faran, Oc Register, 21 Oct. 2025 Solve world hunger and starvation and famines and genocides. — Malik Peay, Essence, 5 Aug. 2025 Holocaust Memorial Day honors the six million Jewish people who were murdered during the Holocaust, as well as the millions killed under Nazi persecution and later genocides around the world. — Janine Henni, People.com, 27 Jan. 2025 Yet, genocides and atrocities have continued in Cambodia, Rwanda, Darfur, Sudan, and Ukraine. — Irwin Cotler, TIME, 26 Jan. 2025

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But aid workers in Haiti say that large outbreaks of gang violence, particularly massacres like the one in Kenscoff, a community in the hills above Port-au-Prince, are not uncommon.

— Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 9 Sep. 2026
In his reports, there is both disbelief and bitter acceptance of the massacres of Ukraine’s Jewish population.

— Nick Holdstock, The Dial, 8 Sep. 2026

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Qusra has suffered from constant settler pogroms over the last few months.

— David Shulman, The New York Review of Books, 26 Aug. 2026
In conversations with the American Jewish Committee, Ossoff shared that his father is of Russian and Lithuanian Jewish descent, and his relatives fled pogroms and antisemitism in Eastern Europe.

— Irene Wright, USA Today, 21 Aug. 2026

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By the eighth century, Charlemagne was organizing mass slaughters of the animal while the Church, wary of its earlier status as living god, denounced the bear as lewd, noting its disturbing resemblance to humans.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 30 July 2026
Hands-down one of the most disgusting movies ever made (a compliment), the film finds the indefatigable slasher, who was decapitated at the end of Terrifier 2, reattaching his head and commencing his ritual slaughters.

— Declan Gallagher, Entertainment Weekly, 31 Oct. 2025

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