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
Solve world hunger and starvation and famines and genocides.
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Malik Peay, Essence, 5 Aug. 2025
Holocaust Memorial Day honors the six million Jewish people who were murdered during the Holocaust, as well as the millions killed under Nazi persecution and later genocides around the world.
—Janine Henni, People.com, 27 Jan. 2025
Yet, genocides and atrocities have continued in Cambodia, Rwanda, Darfur, Sudan, and Ukraine.
—Irwin Cotler, TIME, 26 Jan. 2025
One of the best films of the 2010s, Joshua Oppenheimer’s film unpacks the Indonesian genocides of the 1960s and how the men who perpetrated them have never faced consequences.
—Brian Tallerico, Vulture, 8 Jan. 2025
The genocides in Rwanda and the territories of the former Yugoslavia tempered that period’s hopes—but they were met with international tribunals, which held out the promise that war criminals could no longer expect impunity.
—Arash Azizi, The Atlantic, 27 Nov. 2024
Their stories tell of 74 genocides, or firmans, committed against them throughout their history.
—Winthrop Rodgers, The Dial, 14 Nov. 2024
Of course, the greatest obstacle to Africa’s growth has been internal conflicts, from civil and regional wars to genocides.
—Jack A. Goldstone, Foreign Affairs, 18 May 2023
Malik Peay, Essence, 5 Aug. 2025
Holocaust Memorial Day honors the six million Jewish people who were murdered during the Holocaust, as well as the millions killed under Nazi persecution and later genocides around the world.
—Janine Henni, People.com, 27 Jan. 2025
Yet, genocides and atrocities have continued in Cambodia, Rwanda, Darfur, Sudan, and Ukraine.
—Irwin Cotler, TIME, 26 Jan. 2025
One of the best films of the 2010s, Joshua Oppenheimer’s film unpacks the Indonesian genocides of the 1960s and how the men who perpetrated them have never faced consequences.
—Brian Tallerico, Vulture, 8 Jan. 2025
The genocides in Rwanda and the territories of the former Yugoslavia tempered that period’s hopes—but they were met with international tribunals, which held out the promise that war criminals could no longer expect impunity.
—Arash Azizi, The Atlantic, 27 Nov. 2024
Their stories tell of 74 genocides, or firmans, committed against them throughout their history.
—Winthrop Rodgers, The Dial, 14 Nov. 2024
Of course, the greatest obstacle to Africa’s growth has been internal conflicts, from civil and regional wars to genocides.
—Jack A. Goldstone, Foreign Affairs, 18 May 2023
Recent Examples of Synonyms for genocides
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Syria’s current government has in some cases released Assadist figures accused of massacres and appointed former militia leaders accused of crimes against civilians to high ranks in the new army.—
Robin Yassin-Kassab,
Time,
17 Sep. 2025
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The platform was then embroiled in the Cambridge Analytica scandal and accused of allowing misinformation that skewed elections in the US and other western countries, and led to massacres in places like Myanmar.—
Reed Albergotti,
semafor.com,
3 Sep. 2025
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In 1881, in reaction to pogroms in Russia, Jewish groups that called themselves Lovers of Zion began organizing migration to Palestine and helped establish agricultural settlements there.—
Arash Azizi,
The Atlantic,
16 Sep. 2025
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In Iași alone over a three-day period in June 1941, more than 13,000 Jews — more than a third of the city’s Jewish population — were massacred, marking one of the worst pogroms of World War II.—
Larry Luxner,
Sun Sentinel,
21 Aug. 2025
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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.—
Peter Tonguette,
The Washington Examiner,
22 Aug. 2025
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“Genocides.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/genocides. Accessed 20 Sep. 2025.
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