as in massacres
the deliberate killing of people who belong to a particular racial, political, or cultural group
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Recent Examples of genocides
In what would become one of the largest genocides in Europe since World War II, Bosnian Serb forces began an attack on the Bosniak ethnic group in the town of Srebrenica in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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USA Today,
24 June 2026
Holocaust survivors and local Palm Beach County students joined together for the Legacy of Impact event hosted by inSIGHT Through Education, a program that encourages kindness by using lessons learned from the Holocaust and genocides worldwide.
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Jessica Tzikas,
Sun Sentinel,
29 Apr. 2026
Most genocides begin with extraordinarily compelling stories—ones that transform neighbors and friends into interlopers, invaders, infections, and infestations.
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Sayantani Dasgupta
february 24,
Literary Hub,
24 Feb. 2026
Thus could Samantha Power berate American governments for their failure to intervene in genocides everywhere.
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Victor J. Blue,
Harpers Magazine,
23 Nov. 2025
Solve world hunger and starvation and famines and genocides.
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Malik Peay,
Essence,
5 Aug. 2025
Staged in the aftermath of genocides in Rwanda and Srebrenica, the summit saw 170 governments adopt the Responsibility to Protect, or R2P, pledging to take on individual responsibility to protect their own populations from mass atrocities.
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Mike Brand,
The Conversation,
18 Sep. 2024
USA Today,
24 June 2026
Holocaust survivors and local Palm Beach County students joined together for the Legacy of Impact event hosted by inSIGHT Through Education, a program that encourages kindness by using lessons learned from the Holocaust and genocides worldwide.
—
Jessica Tzikas,
Sun Sentinel,
29 Apr. 2026
Most genocides begin with extraordinarily compelling stories—ones that transform neighbors and friends into interlopers, invaders, infections, and infestations.
—
Sayantani Dasgupta
february 24,
Literary Hub,
24 Feb. 2026
Thus could Samantha Power berate American governments for their failure to intervene in genocides everywhere.
—
Victor J. Blue,
Harpers Magazine,
23 Nov. 2025
Solve world hunger and starvation and famines and genocides.
—
Malik Peay,
Essence,
5 Aug. 2025
Staged in the aftermath of genocides in Rwanda and Srebrenica, the summit saw 170 governments adopt the Responsibility to Protect, or R2P, pledging to take on individual responsibility to protect their own populations from mass atrocities.
—
Mike Brand,
The Conversation,
18 Sep. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for genocides
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The issue has been particularly salient for low-income families living near fields of coca, the shrub used to make cocaine, as human rights organizations documented more than 50 massacres in Colombia just this year.
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The massacres, which resulted in the deaths of roughly 100,000 Polish civilians, are officially classified as a genocide by Warsaw, a characterization Kyiv denies.
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Later in the 19th century, pogroms across Eastern Europe and the aftermath of Italian reunification drove a surge of migration to the United States.
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Other ancestors had fled aboard the Mayflower from the persecution of Puritans in England, aboard a steamship from pogroms in Ukraine, aboard a schooner from Spanish repression in Cuba.
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Your Night Manager and Something Very Bad characters both made big decisions that led to bloodbaths.
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Naturally, the theft of the ghost shirt by the stooges in the employ of Roy Lee is accompanied by many deceased bodies — the first of the many bloodbaths in Americana, which has a distressingly expedient approach to on-screen carnage.
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Hands-down one of the most disgusting movies ever made (a compliment), the film finds the indefatigable slasher, who was decapitated at the end of Terrifier 2, reattaching his head and commencing his ritual slaughters.
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