Pogroms in a sentence

Indian courts in Modi-friendly states are banning documentaries that show the BJP’s complicity in anti-Muslim pogroms, and authorising police raids on the producers of programmes that criticise Modi’s personal involvement in them (including the BBC).

My mom was a great-granddaughter of Jewish immigrants who had come to New York to flee the pogroms of late-1800s Russia and Ukraine.

Pogroms in Malatya, Kahramanmaras and Corum between 1978 and 1980 saw hundreds murdered by mobs.

They fled pogroms and made their new lives here in Portland.

Well, considered more broadly, maybe that Stephens’ claim that “the age of pogroms has returned” has some truth to it.

She moved from Durban in South Africa, where she had lost her husband, a storekeeper, to one of the country’s xenophobic pogroms.

The retired patient advocate, who spoke on the condition of anonymity out of fear of retaliation by anti-Semitic groups and Trump supporters, said her family moved to Canada in 1921 to escape pogroms in Russia and immigrated to the United States in 1949.

Tulsa is also the location of one of the worst white-on-black racial pogroms in American history when white mobs killed hundreds of black people in 1921.

Basically, the poem was written in response to the Russian anti-Semitic pogroms of 1881 and finally became famous following German anti-Semitic pogrom of late 1938.

He supported a vast campaign of pogroms by the Muslim Brotherhood against the Christians, and covered up their abuses – lynchings, destruction of the archbishoprics, and the burning of churches.

This will weaken Tamils by separating us and leaving us defenseless or voiceless in the face of more exposure to Sinhalese pogroms.

As the most persecuted people in history—the victims of religious persecution, racism, pogroms and the Holocaust—Jews have developed a keen sense of morality.

He provided no further statistics in the statement published late Thursday, in which he commemorated the Kristallnacht pogroms of 1938 in Germany and Austria against Jews.

His father, Mitchell, who died in 2007, was a refugee who fled pogroms in Eastern Europe.

I cannot forget the history of false accusations against my people that led to pogroms and genocide.

She is applauded by the world for providing refuge to the Rohingya fleeing Myanmar pogroms, by the West for serving as a bulwark against Islamic extremism, and by India for the dismantling of camps of Northeast militants.

They spoke about the war and the Holocaust, among other things, and Ahituv brought up the issue of Skorzeny’s participation in the Kristallnacht pogroms.

Within hours, waves of revenge attacks broke out, with the military and Buddhist mobs marauding through Rohingya villages in bloody pogroms, killing thousands, raping women and girls, and burning houses and whole villages.

Antisemitic parties and movements existed, but the governments of Vienna and Budapest did not initiate pogroms or implement official antisemitic policies.

Borges responded with the essay "Yo, Judío" ("I, a Jew"), a reference to the old "Yo, Argentino" ("I, an Argentine"), a defensive phrase used during pogroms of Argentine Jews to make it clear to attackers that an intended victim was not Jewish.