Persecution
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Even through that long period of persecution, Greece’s far-left forces remained proud of their predecessors’ role in fighting the German-Italian-Bulgarian occupation, lauding their heroic efforts to save, even briefly, swathes of Greek territory from foreign exploitation.
In Amman, Damascus, Istanbul, and Beirut I met dozens of people who have a well-founded fear of
persecution
in their home country.
Recession and depression can lead to exclusion and, at worst,
persecution
of societies’ most vulnerable groups.
Natasha Walter, who works with refugee women in London, reports that most of the
persecution
they are fleeing is sexual – and that the law does not validate the grounds for their asylum applications.
News Corp’s board of directors, which at the time of the hacking scandal included venture capitalist Thomas Perkins (who likened the so-called war on the top 1% of income earners to the Nazis’
persecution
of the Jews), was a textbook example of poor corporate governance.
But there has always been another, much smaller, group of asylum-seekers – those individuals forced to flee their home countries by persecution, often on religious or ethnic grounds.
The 1951 United Nations Convention on Refugees recognized a right of asylum for those unable to return to their country of origin owing to a “well founded” fear of
persecution.
In practice, however, it has never been simple to distinguish between economic and political migrants, because political
persecution
usually includes economic restrictions.
The asylum system is totally unprepared to deal with the new generation of refugees, who are ineligible under the existing framework, because they are fleeing not from specific acts of persecution, but from the disintegration of their states.
Zhao’s
persecution
was the
persecution
of a leader who dedicated himself for over a decade to groundbreaking efforts that became the foundations of China’s economic reform.
There are four fundamental ingredients of such man-made disasters: repression of the market, suppression of information, systematic
persecution
of dissent, and attribution of blame for the disaster to the victims (which justifies radicalizing the policies that led to the problem in the first place).
But because the US Founders – many of them descended from people fleeing official religious
persecution
– guaranteed that there would never be a state-sanctioned religion, no religious group in America, no matter how small, is made to feel marginalized.
We will see more
persecution
of scientists, journalists, and businessmen, whose work with international charities, media, or corporations will now be construed as treachery.
And in the celebrations surrounding the Cup, the LGBT community, which faces systematic
persecution
in Russia, will have a safe opportunity to take part in civic and social life.
Gay themes have also met with Nihalani’s disapproval, with the film Aligarh, about the
persecution
of a gay professor, receiving an “A” rating, which restricted the film to adults, despite the lack of nudity or sex.
Let there be no misunderstanding: Europe alone is not responsible for the wellbeing of all the people fleeing
persecution
in Afghanistan, Eritrea, Syria, and elsewhere.
Others receive entire families fleeing
persecution
and terror in their own countries.
Putin’s factotums claim that Ukraine’s Russian speakers are under threat, but they cannot point to a single example of
persecution
that might bear this out.
Then on October 1st at a National Day speech in the Great Hall of the People Premier Li Peng defiantly proclaimed that "After shaking off imperialist bullying and
persecution
from various powerful nations, the long suffering Chinese people have been on the rise ever since."
This would certainly be the case in Bangladesh, where some Rohingya refugees – who have fled horrific
persecution
in neighboring Myanmar – rely on the drug trade for economic survival.
The Global Migration BlowbackNEW YORK – The roughly 750,000 people who have arrived in Europe by sea in 2015 make up just a small part of the 60 million people displaced by war or
persecution
– the largest number in recorded history.
A higher rate of global migration is desirable for four reasons: it is a source of innovation and dynamism; it responds to labor shortages; it meets the challenges posed by rapidly aging populations; and it provides an escape from poverty and
persecution.
Mass migration gave millions of Europeans an escape route from poverty and persecution, and fed the dynamism and development of countries like the United States, the United Kingdom, and various colonies.
As terrible as all of this is, the worst of the
persecution
has been aimed at the Yezidi, an ancient religious group that lives among the Kurds.
Over the centuries, both Christians and Muslims dubbed the Yezidi “devil worshippers,” and subjected them to relentless persecution, which was especially extreme under the Ottoman Turks in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Under Saddam Hussein, the Yezidi were not subjected to overt religious persecution, though they remained under pressure to Arabize their culture.
Centuries ago, the last Zoroastrians fled
persecution
in Iran for India.
Shiraz Maher of the International Center for the Study of Radicalization (ICSR) at King’s College London identifies a common thread of sentiment among recruits: “righteous indignation, defiance, a sense of persecution, and a refusal to conform.”
What does Kosovo, where the Albanians suffered
persecution
and ethnic cleansing, have in common with the situation in Crimea, whose people have never been oppressed by Ukrainians?
For centuries, their ancestors emigrated in droves, seeking relief from material hardships and political
persecution.
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