Word: pogrom
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...host to the Tomb of the Patriarchs, the supposed resting place of Abraham, who is central to both religions, and of his family. Attracted by the site, some 400 Israeli settlers, mostly religious extremists, live in enclaves amid Hebron's 100,000 Arabs. Mindful of a 1929 pogrom against Jewish Hebronites, the settlers fear that Palestinian self-rule will lead to their slaughter. Friedman, an Orthodox Jew from a settlement near Jerusalem, said he acted to stop any Israeli retreat in Hebron. Pumping his fist and grinning in triumph at reporters after his arrest, he repeated the nationalist chant "Hebron...
...United Nations says the pogrom has created the worst humanitarian disaster in the world today. The World Health Organization this summer found that the death rate in Darfur was three times the emergency threshold, with hundreds dying of disease every day and tens of thousands likely to die by the end of the year. Testifying before Congress this month, Secretary of State Colin Powell declared that the horrors committed in Darfur deserve the ultimate sanction. "We concluded--I concluded--that genocide has been committed in Darfur, and that the government of Sudan and the Janjaweed bear responsibility, and that genocide...
...Holocaust survivors who memorialized the dead were professional writers. The more than 1,200 texts they wrote chronicle the sad years of genocide and often the decades, even centuries, before. Their accounts, typically printed in limited press runs, adapted a Jewish tradition from the late 13th century of recording pogrom victims...
...world has done little to stop the ethnic cleansing of black Africans in western Sudan by Arab militias, a pogrom that allegedly has the support of the Sudanese government. An estimated 10,000 villagers have already been murdered. In May 1994, as genocide swept across RWANDA, TIME explored the inadequacy of the global response to a crisis that would ultimately claim 800,000 lives...
...Years Ago In TIME So far, the world has done little to stop the ethnic cleansing of black Africans in western Sudan by Arab militias, a pogrom that allegedly has the support of the Sudanese government. An estimated 10,000 villagers have already been murdered. In May 1994, as genocide swept across Rwanda, TIME explored the inadequacy of the global response to a crisis that would ultimately claim 800,000 lives...