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- The International Criminal Court accused Sudan of genocide and crimes against humanity.
- He survived a genocide.† (source)
- Forcing children into the shadows can be counted as genocide.† (source)
- "Don't you dare be a participant in that genocide!" she told him.† (source)
- And "Hindus are bent on genocide of the Sikh nation.† (source)
- Massacres, genocides, that sort of thing.† (source)
- He faced a double genocide, of Jews by the Nazis and of peculiars by the hollowgast.† (source)
- I grew up, in part, in Argentina during the genocidal "dirty war," when the military "disappeared" up to thirty thousand people.† (source)
- She said that even though paying five cents more for a bag of gingko biloba rings might not seem like much to some of us, victims of real racism, like the Armenians and the Rwandans and the Ugandans and the Bosnians, would recognize that that five cents was only the first step on the road to genocide.† (source)
- They were conquered, but there's no evidence of genocide per se.† (source)
- "The Crazy Life" in my youth, although devastating, was only the beginning stages of what I believe is now a consistent and growing genocidal level of destruction predicated on thepremise there are marginalized youth with no jobs or future, and therefore expendable.† (source)
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- He asks about her work, and she tells him that she has served in Kosovo with the UN, in Rwanda after the genocide, Colombia, Burundi too.† (source)
- She viewed ethnic cleansing, famine and genocide as direct threats to her furniture.† (source)
- A 1998 report by the U.S. Committee for Refugees estimated that approximately 200,000 people, or slightly less than a fifth of the total population of the Nuba region, were killed in what it called the Nuba genocide.† (source)
- The students conducted bake sales, car washes, and talent shows, and also educated themselves about Cambodia's history of war and genocide.† (source)
- Theirs, too: embedding themselves in human bodies, establishing death camps, training kids to finish the genocide, all of it crazy risky, stupid risky.† (source)
- My mind was reeling at the idea of genocide on that level.† (source)
- The women of Anatolia took to the sword to crush an invasion from the Caucasus, after the male soldiers were all slaughtered in a far-reaching genocide.† (source)
- The monument was a kind of cruel anomaly, honoring as it did the agents of genocide while the countless graves of those they had butchered elsewhere lay forever unmarked.† (source)
- It was a genocide, wasn't it?† (source)
- A cardboard sign with GENOCIDE AWARENESS written on it was taped to the front edge of the table and a banner reading ONE WORLD, hung on the wall behind it.† (source)
- Castro then ordered the pilots convicted of genocide.† (source)
- Despite wars and genocides that demand global action, it must be remembered that Africa is a continent of fifty-four separate countries, most of which, as represented by Chanda's homeland, are at peace.† (source)
- I was taken in simply to view it from the inside, so that in the event we did come to open genocidal conflict, there would be someone to give another view to history.† (source)
- The students are trying to raise awareness of the genocide in Darfur.
- And there's no genocide to explain how that happened.† (source)
- In choir we learn "The Skye Boat Song," about Bonnie Prince Charlie escaping the genocidal English.† (source)
- And he had told me I must never use the word "genocide" or the terms "Hutu" and "Tutsi" in public.† (source)
- The chief architect of the genocide wants to play chess with me?† (source)
- Men had discredited themselves during the genocide.† (source)
- It seemed like he never slept, it seemed like the genocide was such a part of his every day.† (source)
- Women have suffered grievously in the genocides of Rwanda and Darfur.† (source)
- Since the end of the genocide, leaders of the RPF had ruled Rwanda.† (source)
- In recent genocides, rape has been used systematically to terrorize certain ethnic groups.† (source)
- Deo translated for me: "Never forget the genocide and the people who were slaughtered here."† (source)
- In any event, Rwanda's genocide was, without any doubt, a state-sponsored slaughter.† (source)
- Before the genocide, I probably was naive in terms of believing people, trusting people.† (source)
- This has been viewed as another example of genocidal thinking.† (source)
- The exchange rates — one Mona Lisa equalled Bergen-Belsen, one Armenian genocide equalled the Ninth Symphony plus three Great Pyramids — were suggested, but there was room for haggling.† (source)
- Would Genocide slide between the tiles?† (source)
- What Esthappen and Rahel witnessed that morning, though they didn't know it then, was a clinical demonstration in controlled conditions (this was not war after all, or genocide) of human nature's pursuit of ascendancy.† (source)
- Genocide?† (source)
- The Genocide Awareness table was gone.† (source)
- That was before he told me the truth about who he was, and afterward I thought he meant I had saved him from that whole human genocide, mass-murderer thing.† (source)
- "Because thousands of native people died on the Trail of Tears, shouldn't we call it a 'genocide' instead of a 'forced march'?"† (source)
- One World is more than just genocide.† (source)
- In the aftermath of the genocide, 70 percent of Rwanda's population was female, and so the country was obliged to utilize women.† (source)
- A genocide awareness club?† (source)
- In Rwanda, when the genocide was over, 70 percent of the country's population was female because so many more men were killed.† (source)
- Murvelene was paired with Claudine Mukakarisa, a twenty-seven-year-old genocide survivor from Butare, Rwanda.† (source)
- Emmanuel, Deo explained, had lived in Burundi for a time but had returned to this part of Rwanda a few years before the genocide.† (source)
- Rwanda is an impoverished, landlocked, patriarchal society that still lives in the shadow of the 1994 genocide in which 800,000 people were slaughtered in one hundred days.† (source)
- To Deo, Kagame and his government were the people who had stopped the genocide, who had managed to bring order back to a shattered, looted country.† (source)
- Even in places like Pakistan, where there is no genocide or all-out war, honor rapes arise from an obsession with virginity and from the authorities' indifference to injustices suffered by the poor and uneducated.† (source)
- It was hard to imagine an American psychiatrist medicating him for having survived genocide in two countries.† (source)
- More girls are killed in this routine "gendercide" in any one decade than people were slaughtered in all the genocides of the twentieth century.† (source)
- Some historians say that the RPF played an essential role in the genocide, by introducing violence into the situation.† (source)
- The radio had been a primary tool in the genocide, for whipping up murderous fervor and for organizing it.† (source)
- Rwanda's genocide began about six months after Ndadaye's assassination, in April 1994, with the murder of Rwanda's president.† (source)
- We passed men dressed in pink uniforms, prisoners convicted of crimes in the genocide, working in fields and on public buildings.† (source)
- I had the impression it was in this place and in his other sanctuaries that Deo had reconciled his experience of genocide with his belief in God.† (source)
- I said to Sharon, "One of the things I've noticed about some of the genocide narratives I've read, people will say, 'God spared me.† (source)
- But if there was someone who really understood prevention, he thought, it was Paul Farmer, and prevention not just of disease but of catastrophes like genocide.† (source)
- Some critics were scornful of the government's yearly commemorations of the genocide and of the continuing village-level trials of small-time genocidaires.† (source)
- Simply opening a text to T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land and seeing the word "April" did the trick, because that was the month in which Rwanda's genocide had begun.† (source)
- Rwanda's genocide began in April 1994, and ended about four months later, in July, after the Rwandan Patriotic Front had conquered most of the country.† (source)
- But many Hutus were also killed, for opposing absolute Hutu power before the genocide, for being suspected of moderate views, for refusing to participate in the killing.† (source)
- Once, I listened to Deo deliver a rather scholarly public-health talk about Rwanda, and a person in the audience asked him what had happened to him during the genocide.† (source)
- When she was alone with him and there was time to talk, it seemed as though he was compelled to tell her about the genocide, and to recite parts of his own story.† (source)
- And on the occasions when the few close friends who knew he'd witnessed genocide asked him about what he'd been through, he didn't know how to explain.† (source)
- It was, as one historian writes, a state-sponsored "selective genocide," clearly designed to eliminate all potential Hutu leaders, even including children in secondary school.† (source)
- Nancy hadn't known that this young man had escaped a civil war and a genocide, until Sharon brought him to dinner: "She explained for Deo that it was the same process, that he'd been caught in all that.† (source)
- Deo muttered some imprecations; he was far from irreligious, but he'd acquired a lot of anticlerical feeling, in part because of all the well-attested stories of Rwandan priests aiding and abetting the genocide, and in some cases actually wielding machetes.† (source)
- In the museum, you pressed a button and the radio's tinny speaker played the chant that Deo told me he'd heard so often before and during the genocide, like a satanic inversion of a hymn: "God is just.† (source)
- The government, critics said, was just trying to claim "a genocide credit" that would excuse its autocratic ways, that would allow it to avoid discussion of the crimes Tutsis had committed against Hutus.† (source)
- Inevitably, some people now denied that what had happened in Rwanda was a genocide -- arguing either in obvious service of the guilty, or, I think, in service of the extreme self-pity that admits no suffering as great as one's own.† (source)
- In his book about the genocide, Philip Gourevitch writes that the preparations for mass slaughter got fully mobilized only after the peace agreement was signed -- "only when Hutu Power was confronted by the threat of peace."† (source)
- The soldiers busted open the doors to the dormitory, and their commander -- weirdly enough, a Rwandan woman, a veteran of that genocide -- ordered the students to divide themselves: "Hutu brothers over here, Tutsi cockroaches there."† (source)
- A lot of the writing on Rwanda's genocide can be seen as a search for causes of the violence, with some authors emphasizing one cause, others adducing concatenations of causes, primary and secondary: colonialism's legacies (especially the propagation of the myth that Tutsis were a superior race of alien invaders); past and present violence that hardened ethnic prejudice and helped to beget further violence; political opportunism that took advantage of a largely uneducated population,…† (source)
- …to beget further violence; political opportunism that took advantage of a largely uneducated population, imbued, some have said, with the habit of obedience; overpopulation, environmental degradation, and economic distress that led to competition for dwindling resources; the harmful and appalling role played by France and the criminally negligent response of the United Nations, the United States, and other Western powers, both to warnings of genocide and to the mass slaughter itself.† (source)
- …at night in one of Butler Library's twenty-four-hour study rooms, poring over the likes of Kant and Hume and Plato, his favorite of all the philosophers he read, looking for a means to close the gap between what he'd experienced and what he was able to say, looking for something reliable in a world that had become untrustworthy, looking for some sort of structured belief, some grand encyclopedia with an index in which he could look up "genocide" and learn where it fit in the universe.† (source)
- How to reckon with the fact that, unlike some other genocides, the slaughters he had witnessed had been mainly low-tech mayhem, committed mostly with machetes, spears, bows and arrows?† (source)
- In Deo's view, the critique contained far too little appreciation for the government's accomplishments -- rebuilding institutions virtually from scratch, repatriating about two million refugees, providing security for a traumatized population in the face of persistent armed attacks from genocidal forces in exile.† (source)
- He disliked spending time with her inside the rectory, because invariably a parishioner or priest would happen by and Sharon would say, "Oh, Father So-and-So, this is Deogratias," and then he would have to listen, half comprehending by now, as she told what she knew of his story, and often the third party would say he'd heard about genocides over there in Africa and that terrible thing between Hutus and Tutsis, and which was Deo, Hutu or Tutsi?† (source)
- Black people began to believe in greater numbers that this country was really moving toward genocide, and from the point of view of black America, the evidence was alarming.† (source)
- Black people were absolutely certain it was not black people, and it was generally feared it might be some white racist group and therefore another symptom of genocidal manipulation.† (source)
- Almost simultaneously, many black people had become convinced that every time a black community was goaded into such an explosion, it served only the cause of racists and brought us closer to a genocidal situation.† (source)
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