After the Communist government took power in 1975, the Lao soldiers who worked for the United States became targets for persecution.
If that's true, why are they allowing the person who enabled all these disclosures – Edward Snowden – to be targeted for persecution by the US government for the "crime" of blowing the whistle on all of this?
Although Catholics, Poles, homosexuals, Roma (Gypsies), and the handicapped were targeted for persecution, if not outright extermination, the Jews of Germany, Poland, and the Soviet Union were by far the most numerous among the victims; in German-occupied Europe some six million Jews were killed during the war.
As proponents of a religion originating from Islam, stamped by modernity, universal human rights and compatibility with many Western values, Baha'is are vulnerable targets for persecution by the Iranian theocracy.
We believe that the queer community should widen its scope of activism and take a critical look at the ways in which we are still, as we have been for quite some time, criminalized and targeted for public persecution by unjust sex laws.
A final $10 million would be used to compile, for research and remembrance, a list of all who were the target of persecution under the Nazis.
Relativists were the target of persecution in Hitler's Germany, hounded in Stalin's Russia, and disdained in 1950s America.
As a result, Jews were often the target of persecution expulsion and murder.
And he did: "On the other hand," he added, "Christians who are being targeted for genocide, for persecution, Christians who are being beheaded or crucified, we should be providing safe haven to them.
"Now on the other hand," Cruz added, "Christians who are being targeted, for genocide, for persecution, Christians who are being beheaded or crucified, we should be providing safe haven to them".
