She knew how terrified the San were of all foreigners, for the old people had told her all the stories of brutal persecution.

The Jewish persecutions were trivial when compared with the brutal and widespread persecution by the Romans.

Hitler's Germany taught solely as a series of brutal persecutions and bloody deeds soon galls.

At the end of the war, the Americans sent the Hungarian prisoners-of-war back to Hungary, including the gendarmes, where brutal persecution awaited them.

This period is regarded as a time of open and brutal persecution of the Church.

During Aleman's term in office free labor associations faced relentless and often brutal persecution, which the government justified in the name of fighting cold-war Communism.

The Kurds, who have suffered brutal and persistent persecution at the hands of Baghdad governments for decades, are fearful of leaving themselves defenseless.

The brutal persecution of the Shiites in the south of the country is no secret either.