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  • noun Plural form of pogrom.

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Examples

  • Well, then I guess that calling biologists jihadists and instigators of pogroms is not resorting to cheap insults, since your post didn't end up in the hole.

    A Dubious "Opportunity" for IDers 2007

  • I may add I grew up with security clearances being a major part of daily life in Northern Virginia - not just military or intelligence, but also banking and justice system, but seeing this at such a scale brings to mind what such tools are useful for - whether you call them purges or pogroms is just a matter of perspective.

    Is That Legal?: Census Data Misused in World War II 2007

  • There were daily "pogroms" - in the New York Times and under datelines which few noticed were from Tel Aviv.

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009

  • This passage was the pretext of anti-Semitism for 2,000 years and the motive behind centuries of mass killings, known as pogroms, in Eastern Europe when Jews were falsely accused of using Christian children's blood in religious rites.

    Sarah Palin's 'blood libel' claim stirs controversy 2011

  • This passage was the pretext of anti-Semitism for 2,000 years and the motive behind centuries of mass killings, known as pogroms, in Eastern Europe when Jews were falsely accused of using Christian children's blood in religious rites.

    Sarah Palin's 'blood libel' claim stirs controversy 2011

  • This passage was the pretext of anti-Semitism for 2,000 years and the motive behind centuries of mass killings, known as pogroms, in Eastern Europe when Jews were falsely accused of using Christian children's blood in religious rites.

    Sarah Palin's 'blood libel' claim stirs controversy 2011

  • The ultraorthodox Rabbis of Poland and Ukraine decided that the pogroms were a punishment from God and that Jews should lead stricter lives and not have as much fun.

    Boing Boing David Pescovitz 2011

  • A decisive role in stopping the pogroms was the appeal for calm issued by Metropolitan Andrei Sheptytysky of the Ukrainian Catholic Church, the efforts of the Ukrainian militia in Lviv to stop it and the arrival of the bulk of the 49th army corps of the German Wehrmacht.

    www.kyivpost.com 2010

  • A decisive role in stopping the pogroms was the appeal for calm issued by Metropolitan Andrei Sheptytysky of the Ukrainian Catholic Church, the efforts of the Ukrainian militia in Lviv to stop it and the arrival of the bulk of the 49th army corps of the German Wehrmacht.

    www.kyivpost.com 2010

  • The modern concentration camps developed by the British during the Boer War and by the Nazis were based on US military "pogroms" against Native Americans.

    Obama On Wright: "This Is Not A Crackpot Church" 2009

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  • an organized persecution, and

    massacure of a monority group

    May 21, 2009