Pogroms

A pogrom is a violent riot incited with the aim of massacring or expelling an ethnic or religious group, usually applied to attacks on Jews. The term entered the English language from Russian to describe late 19th- and early 20th-century attacks on Jews in the Russian Empire (mostly within the Pale of Settlement). Retrospectively, similar attacks against Jews which occurred in other times and places were renamed pogroms. Contemporarily, the word is also used to describe publicly sanctioned purgative attacks against non-Jewish groups. The characteristics of a pogrom vary widely, depending on th

racially charged mass attack in Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA in May-June 1921

anti-Sikh riots in India

communal violence in Gujarat, India

1182 massacre of Roman Catholics in Constantinople

Pogrom of ethnic Chinese in the port city of Batavia (present-day Jakarta) in the Dutch East Indies

event in London in 1780

Riots in response to the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in 1914

mass violence, demonstrations, and civil unrest, mainly targeting ethnic Chinese

unrest in Kosovo in March 2004

Series of extremely violent massacres and pogroms against Muslims in Assam state

Attacks against Fulani herders in central Mali

Pogrom of Alevis and leftists by right-wing extremists in Kahramanmaraş, Turkey in 1978

riots in Mumbai in December 1992 and January 1993

mass murder of Koreans in Kantō region after Kantō Earthquake 1923

1990 period of anti-Hungarian violence in Transylvania, Romania

massacre

2020 protests in Oromia Region, Ethiopia

massacre of Alevi Turks in Turkey

Romani pogrom in 1993 in Romania

Series of terrorist attacks in Giza, Egypt on 7 May, 2011

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Ukrainian nationalist Insurgency against the Soviet Union

series of massacres of Igbo people in Nigeria

Series of Riots in Jakarta, 1974

26 February 2023 Jewish riots in the West Bank

massacre of Coptic Christians in Egypt in 2010

part of the Japanese invasion of Burma during World War II

1900 pogroms of ethnic Chinese in and near Blagoveshchensk, Russian Empire

1959 massacre in Iraq

anti-Syrian riots across Turkey