genocide
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In the wake of the 1994 genocide, Alison Des Forges, then a senior adviser to Human Rights Watch, pointed to genocide inversion as a central means of justifying the genocide against the Tutsis.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
“She’s still basically on a hero’s journey wanting to get justice for what happened to Remy and for the genocide that she witnessed and that she is a survivor of,” Zann says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026
One consistent narrative, however, even 250 years in, is our country’s inability to reckon with the genocide of Indigenous people that kicked the whole thing off.
From Slate ● Jul. 3, 2026
The decades-long conflict in DR Congo is rooted in the 1994 Rwandan genocide.
From BBC ● Jun. 26, 2026
Are we going to travel back in time and prevent genocide, world wars, the atomic bomb?
From "The First State of Being" by Erin Entrada Kelly
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So far, the center has speakers lined up from the Rwandan and Cambodian genocides and is working to include Native voices.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 24, 2024
There have always been monuments to commemorate the loss of life from calamitous events: wars, genocides, terrorist attacks.
From New York Times ● Aug. 10, 2022
Kim, 47, knew that anyone there of his age or older had survived one of the most brutal genocides of the 20th century.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 12, 2022
The two genocides of the 1990s - in central Africa and the former Yugoslavia - showed what happened when the Security Council was challenged to live up to words of the UN charter.
From BBC ● Apr. 8, 2022
She said a local gallery in Rochester, called the Visual Studies Workshop, had been showing photography from genocides around the world, and perhaps we could do an exhibit there.
From "How Dare the Sun Rise" by Sandra Uwiringiyimana
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