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atrocity

[uh-tros-i-tee] / əˈtrɒs ɪ ti /




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Rory Finnin is a professor of Ukrainian studies at the University of Cambridge and the author of “Blood of Others: Stalin’s Crimean Atrocity and the Poetics of Solidarity.”

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 6, 2024

Yevgeny Vindman, a former White House official and retired Army colonel, is part of a joint U.S.-European effort called the Atrocity Crimes Advisory Group, which is key to that effort.

From Washington Post • Oct. 20, 2022

British attorney Nigel Povoas, lead prosecutor with U.S.-backed Atrocity Crimes Advisory Group, has conducted an initial survey of a residential area of Borodianka where apartment blocks were damaged or destroyed, allegedly by Russian warplanes.

From Reuters • Aug. 30, 2022

But the members of Atrocity Girl decided not to just endure but to do something about it.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 7, 2022

It was at one of the Bulgarian Atrocity meetings held in Edinburgh in '78.

From The Man from Archangel and Other Tales of Adventure by Doyle, A. Conan




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