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genocide

[jen-uh-sahyd] / ˈdʒɛn əˌsaɪd /


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Pillay’s career includes challenging apartheid in South Africa and serving on the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, where she helped establish legal precedents recognizing sexual violence as an act of genocide.

From Salon ● Oct. 10, 2026

Pillay's work had been "instrumental in ensuring that war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide are prosecuted", said the chair of the Norwegian Nobel Committee Jørgen Watne Frydnes.

From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026

The ICC, based in The Hague, is heir to the Nuremberg tribunals that prosecuted Nazi war criminals after World War II and special courts that held trials after the Yugoslav wars and the Rwandan genocide.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

The International Court of Justice is currently weighing whether the campaign constituted genocide, a charge the military has always denied.

From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026

A formal style that is appropriate for the inscription on a genocide memorial will differ from a casual style that is appropriate for an email to a close friend.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

Holocaust Memorial Day is an occasion to remember the millions of people murdered by the Nazis and their collaborators, as well as the victims of other genocides.

From BBC ● Jan. 27, 2024

In addition to survivor testimony from the Holocaust, it has included personal accounts of the genocides that took place in Armenia in 1915-1916, in Cambodia in the 1970s and in Rwanda in the 1990s.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 5, 2023

They say going to abandoned nuclear plants or countries where genocides took place is a way to understand the harsh realities of current political turmoil, climate calamities, war and the growing threat of authoritarianism.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 29, 2022

Monuments have long commemorated the loss of life from calamitous events: wars, genocides, terrorist attacks.

From New York Times ● Aug. 11, 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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