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genocide

noun as in mass extermination

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Earlier this year the US determined that the RSF had committed genocide in Darfur.

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Likewise, except for the charges of genocide or “crimes against humanity,” international law, as reflected in the Rome Statute, focuses on orders that are plainly illegal.

“The Nigerian delegation refuted allegations of genocide in Nigeria, emphasizing that violent attacks affect families and communities across religious and ethnic lines,” Onanuga said.

In the ‘80s and ‘90s, the federal government resettled tens of thousands of Hmong, Lao, Cambodian and Vietnamese refugees in California after the Vietnam War, the Cambodian genocide and the Laotian civil war .

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A video of the interaction played in court heard shouts of "Alex Davies-Jones you support genocide" and "what do you think about children being tortured and murdered?"

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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