Cockroaches

His career also has afforded him the opportunity to meet President Obama, fly in a blimp over New York City and have exposure to a wildlife, which Romero says "for a city boy who grew up with cockroaches is pretty unbelievable." ❋ The Partnership For Public Service (2010)

Victims of the Rwandan genocide were called "cockroaches" by its perpetrators. ❋ Robert D. Stolorow (2011)

Those who bring in cockroaches after the 1,000 are already collected receive passes to the new exhibition hall. ❋ Unknown (2007)

The Supreme Court of Canada ruled in 2005 that a speech Mugesera made in Rwanda in 1992 was a crime against humanity by inciting Hutus to kill Tutsis, who he referred to cockroaches and said should be exterminated ❋ Unknown (2012)

The NSA leakers are next, they gleefully proclaim, followed by the whole parade of nefarious, traitorous "cockroaches" -- including reporters -- who have leaked and/or published information that resulted in embarrassment to The Commander-in-Chief in this Time of War. ❋ Glenn Greenwald (2006)

Around 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus were systematically slaughtered in an organised campaign to rid the country of what the Hutu supremacist government termed the 'cockroaches' - and while genocide was pursued, the international community stood by and did nothing to stop the violence. ❋ Unknown (2009)

“I jump out of planes, I could be covered in cockroaches, I do all sorts of things, but I just don’t like the feel of butterflies’ bodies,” she says … 8. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Just as the Tutsis were described as cockroaches and snakes, both Hamas and the PA have described Jews as loathsome and dangerous animals, including cockroaches, spiders, scorpions and alligators. ❋ GayandRight (2009)

They tend to leave the palmetto bugs big, huge cockroaches in other words alone. ❋ Unknown (2007)

I just can't get the idea of cockroaches crawling around INSIDE of me out of my head. ❋ Miss Snark (2006)

Tutsis were also referred to as cockroaches by the broadcasters, he added. ❋ Unknown (2002)

Under the sink, the cockroaches monitored Patsy's action with exasperation, as if the cockroaches were a needy institution and Patsy one of those coy philanthropists who never give their money away. ❋ Robbins, Tom (1990)

Floating sweatshops, where the cockroaches are a protected species. ❋ Unknown (1979)

About 4,000 other Tutsis were slaughtered in Kivumu, one of the bloodiest killing fields in the campaign to eradicate the ethnic minority, whom Hutu leaders called "cockroaches." ❋ By JOSH KRON (2011)

The 56-page indictment said he prepared lists of Tutsis to be "exterminated", referring to them as "cockroaches" - a term notoriously used by those behind the genocide. ❋ David Smith (2011)

"One day everything was normal and then we were being called cockroaches and snakes," she recalls, still with some disbelief. ❋ John Dorman (2010)

Anti-whaling activists labelled 'cockroaches' after Pete Bethune boards vessel PROTESTERS targeting a Japanese whaling fleet in Antarctic waters have been labelled "cockroaches" after anti-whaling protester Pete Bethune secretly boarded a Japanese vessel. ❋ Unknown (2010)