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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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Jones’s site was put up for sale as part of his bankruptcy case in the wake of the nearly $1.5 billion that courts ordered Jones to pay families tied to the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings for falsely calling the massacre a hoax.Alexis Simendinger, The Hill, 11 Dec. 2024
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Last month, The Onion won the bidding for Infowars, which has been forced to sell its assets after a $1.4 billion defamation judgment in favor of the families of the victims of the Sandy Hook shooting massacre.Ted Johnson, Deadline, 11 Dec. 2024
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The mass slaughter is traced back to Bhagwan Chowdhary, the founder of the Gadhimai temple in Bariyarpur, Bara District.Chad de Guzman, TIME, 6 Dec. 2024
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As Christmas approaches, and strange occurrences like the mass slaughter of reindeer start to transpire, Pietari and those around him discover the boy is only half-right and the real trouble is even deeper and stranger.Keith Phipps, Vulture, 5 Dec. 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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The urgency and depth of the national crisis compelled them to create narratives addressing the intimate human consequences of the unspeakable carnage around them.Carlos Aguilar, Los Angeles Times, 16 Dec. 2024
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One casualty of this carnage is Lawtey’s Rob, another character who comes to see the light as he’s betrayed by Yasmin (whom he’s had a crush on since Season 1).Carole Horst, Variety, 14 Dec. 2024
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