Word: pogroms
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...Khmer Rouge did their best to snuff out the 1,000-year-old dance form, murdering an estimated 80% of its masters during their 1975-79 pogrom against artists and intellectuals. Those who survived spent the 1980s and 1990s teaching the art to a younger generation and recording it for posterity on video and paper. You can observe dance classes at the Royal University of Fine Arts' North Campus Monday through Saturday from 7:30 to 10:30 in the morning. Or, to see the finished product for $5, get dates and showtimes from Sovanna Phum by e-mailing sovannaphum@netrec.net...
...truly frightening thing is that it's not just fanatics taking part in the anti-Muslim pogrom. Murder has gone middle class: businessmen are killing businessmen, farmers are fighting farmers, mothers are urging mobs to attack neighbors' children. Across the country, in the cities and out in the villages, Hindu "self-defense" groups are ransacking Muslims' shops and burning their homes. Vigilante patrols from each side keep watch over their respective communities. Among Hindus, talk of finishing the job left undone from the genocide of partition, in which up to a million people died in the bloody split...
...Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee has described the pogrom merely as "unfortunate." Pravin Togadiya, general secretary of the VHP, warns that he can see Hindu sentiment getting even more out of hand. Said one rioter in Ahmadabad, capital of Gujarat, as he watched his comrades pillage a cluster of Muslim homes: "We want to make sure the Muslims never come back." If there is one immutable law of nature, it is that violence begets violence, and hatred spawns more hate (think of the Middle East). India's long national nightmare may just be beginning...
...some areas, such fighting has already started. In the north around Mazar-i-Sharif, ethnic Uzbek General Abdul Rashid Dostum and Hazara warlord Mohammed Mohaqiq have used the hunt for al-Qaeda and Taliban leaders as an excuse for a pogrom against Pashtuns. Human Rights Watch has documented 150 separate cases of looting, rape and killing in the area that have sent thousands of Pashtuns fleeing south. There are also persistent accusations that Afghan commanders are calling in U.S. air strikes against rivals, not terrorists. Meanwhile in Kabul, local factions have begun turning their newly acquired firepower on one another...
...potential lynching that led to the Tulsa upheaval, in which Greenwood, the city's black neighborhood, was burned to the ground by whites. As author Hirsch points out, that murderous episode was not so much a riot as a racial pogrom--"the liquidation of virtually an entire black community and the institutions that held it together." It started with a white woman charging assault against a shoeshine man who had been alone with her in a department-store elevator. She later withdrew the charge, but not before a mob of whites had gathered outside the jailhouse where...