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Systematic Crackdown on Independent Religious Practitioners in Dak Lak Province DAK LAK, VIETNAM

A Report by Genocide Watch Photo: GETTY IMAGES The Noise That Replaced the News  There was a time when Indian news media claimed to present an unbiased record of events. Today, the media have dropped this pretense of objectivity. Indian media have been captured by political parties, particularly by the BJP. The media are louder, angrier, and far less interested in informing the public about what really happens.  This is not an accidental drift. It reflects a deeper shift in w

Smoke billows after Israeli strikes on Beirut’s southern suburbs, as seen from Baabda, Lebanon, March 6, 2026. credit: REUTERS/Mohamed Azakir Genocide Warning: Lebanon March 2026 By Genocide Watch   Hezbollah is a genocidal terrorist organization. Like its Iranian sponsors, Hezbollah openly declares its intention to destroy the nation of Israel, a policy of genocide.   Since October 7, 2023, Hezbollah has launched over 10,000 attacks against Israel, including nightly missile

By Juliana Girotto Image: Lev Karavanov/Mostphotos Genocide Watch is issuing a Genocide Warning for Belarus. Five years since mass protests swept Belarus in 2020, the Lukashenko government has deepened its repression and involvement in human rights violations. Belarusians are denied the ability to exercise basic rights, including freedom of expression, association, and peaceful assembly.  In the February 2024 parliamentary elections and the January 2025 presidential election,

South & Southeast Asia: The Medicalization of Female Genital Mutilation   By Juliana Girotto, Genocide Watch March 2026 Activists carry banners to commemorate International Women’s Day. Toto Santiko Budi/Shutterstock The World Health Organization (WHO) has recently released a call to action surrounding the medicalization of female genital mutilation (FGM) in the Asia-Pacific region. FGM can be defined as “all procedures involving partial or total removal of the female extern

Masked Russian "Little Green Men" in Narva, Estonia Copyright AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda, file Euronews March 19, 2026 By Johanna Urbancik & Franziska Müller A pro-Russian online campaign is casting the Estonian city of Narva as a "people's republic", spreading propaganda and at times calling for violence and sabotage. A flag, a coat of arms, freshly drawn borders – and rhetoric that echoes the playbook of the so-called "people's republics" in eastern Ukraine and Russian-occupied