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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

This season, Macha and SPT will co-sponsor the West Coast premiere of “Macbeth: A Rock Musical,” an all-female take on Shakespeare, with Poisson directing, and local punk band Atrocity Girl as the witches.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 9, 2023

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

Thus relieved from what he loved to refer to as the Bulgarian Atrocity, Mr Wickham returned to London with the most unbounded and embarrassing gratitude and admiration for his saviour.

From The Wrong Box by Stevenson, Robert Louis




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