All 8 Uses
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- An assemblage of agricultural tribes from the area of East Africa now comprising Tanzania, Malawi, and Mozambique, the Somali Bantu had undergone more than three hundred years of almost uninterrupted persecution.†
Chpt 3persecution = very bad and unfair treatment
- When the Somali civil war began in 1991, the persecution accelerated dramatically as warring factions forced the Somali Bantu off their land in the fertile Juba River valley.†
Chpt 3
- Amid the lawlessness and the systematic campaigns of rape, torture, and killing, the Somali Bantu fled en masse with other persecuted Somalis to the empty and dangerous open spaces of northeast Kenya and into four main refugee camps established there by the United Nations.†
Chpt 3persecuted = treated very badly and unfairly
- This history of persecution and wandering had torn at the social fabric of the Somali Bantu and left them, on the whole, poor, deeply traumatized, and far removed from the trappings of the modern world.†
Chpt 3persecution = very bad and unfair treatment
- The Bantu, Feltz learned, would be living in the same complexes as many of the ethnic groups that historically had persecuted them.†
Chpt 3 *persecuted = treated very badly and unfairly
- He mentioned his interest in Arabic to one of his clients, a well-educated Kurdish woman who had fled Iraq and persecution under the rule of Saddam Hussein and who now lived with her husband and children in Clarkston.†
Chpt 24persecution = very bad and unfair treatment
- Eventually, the Dikori family decided to leave and to join the tens of thousands of Sudanese refugees streaming into Egypt in search of, if not economic opportunity, at least a respite from the overt and relentless persecution of Africans and Christians in the Sudan.†
Chpt 26
- A steady flow of refugees into town—most recently, Burundians and Karen, a persecuted ethnic group from Burma—has meant that there has been no shortage of boys who want to try out for the Fugees.†
Chpt Epil.persecuted = treated very badly and unfairly
Definitions:
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(1)
(persecution) very bad and unfair treatment of others -- often because of race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, or political beliefs
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)