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Persecution in sentence

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Decades of persecution have instilled in its leaders the belief that the world is aligned against them.
Although the Holocaust is a category of persecution sui generis, one cannot avoid thinking of Karski in light of the international community’s approach to Syria today.
At the beginning of 2014, more than 51 million people were displaced from their homes, uprooted by conflict and persecution.
Everyone must understand that the obligation to protect people fleeing persecution has its limits.
But government opponents of all stripes run the risk of censorship, persecution, or wrongful imprisonment.
Our chief goal is to end the persecution and discrimination, including the ban on the Kurdish language and our exclusion from certain professions, and we believe that this can best be achieved through a decentralized political system that devolves power to the provinces.
Jewish persecution, and the way that Zionism has employed it, has become a model for Palestinian nationalism.
Some are fleeing wars and persecution; others, mostly young people, are seeking economic opportunities.
Under the Iraqi Hashemite monarchy, the Assyrians faced persecution for co-operating with the British during the First World War.
A recent UN report states that religious minorities in Iraq “have become the regular victims of discrimination, harassment, and, at times, persecution, with incidents ranging from intimidation to murder,” and that “members of the Christian minority appear to be particularly targeted.”
The persecution of these ancient and unique Christian communities, in Iraq and in the Middle East as a whole, is deeply disturbing.
What should we do with the millions of refugees fleeing war and persecution around the world?
During this time, we must not let ourselves become accustomed to images of people drowning when they flee persecution, or hospitals and refugee camps razed.
The refugees were Uzbeks, and Karimov had good reason to fear the possibility of a much bigger crisis within Uzbekistan, which is also home to many Tajiks, Kyrgyz, and of course millions of Uzbeks who might have been inflamed by the persecution of their ethnic kin in Kyrgyzstan.
This persecution will admittedly aggravate their difficult struggle, but they will naturally survive it.
But as regrettable as the government’s repressive policies are, Turkey’s role in protecting people who have fled armed conflict and persecution is worthy of support.
The Rohingya here are safe from persecution, but the threat of illness and malnutrition pursues them.
For example, GDT asked in 1990 if respondents agreed with the statement “The press should be protected by the law from persecution by the government.”
When arguing to keep people – especially refugees who are fleeing violence and persecution – out of the EU, one should at least have a solid case.
Despite repeated reminders from the EU, the Cuban government has done none of the things that the Union has been urging it to do for many years – above all, to release all political prisoners and stop the persecution of independent civil-society groups and the regime’s political opponents.
Among the most urgently needed steps is to develop the capacity to distinguish quickly – and ideally at the border – between refugees (who face political persecution) and economic migrants.
What drives people to Europe is a complex set of forces, ranging from conflict and political persecution to poverty and economic pressures.
In Asia, the persecution of the Muslim Rohingya minority in Myanmar has contributed to a recent increase in the number of refugees.
Refugees were defined as those unable or unwilling to return to their country because of a well-founded fear of persecution on the grounds of “race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group, or political opinion.”
If those who claim asylum in a nearby country were sent to a refugee camp, safe from persecution, and supported financially by aid from affluent countries, people smuggling – and deaths in transit – would be eliminated.
Today, just 5% of the Arab world is Christian, and many of those who remain are leaving, forced out by persecution and war.
Beyond its practical shortcomings, the EU’s military-based approach to the migration crisis is flawed, because it may appear to criminalize migrants and asylum seekers – desperate people who are fleeing violence and persecution at home – in the public mind.
It is, of course, certain that Saddam Hussein will not escape trial for the extra-judicial, extra-legal and summary executions, torture, and systematic persecution of hundreds of thousands of Iraqis that marked his decades of murderous misrule.
The persecution of the Rohingya can no longer be described as merely a domestic problem for Myanmar.
If it does, it can serve as an honest broker between Myanmar, Bangladesh, and, most importantly, representatives of the Rohingya community, who have suffered persecution for long enough.
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