
Agence France-Presse
- Nov 30, 2021
Argentina Court to Investigate War Crimes Against Rohingya
The case, which the UN says could amount to genocide, was brought under the legal premise of universal justice Protesters show support for the Rohingya outside the Peace Palace in the Netherlands on 10 December 2019. Myanmar is facing legal challenges from all over the world, including Argentina. Photograph: Sem van der Wal/EPA Argentina’s justice system will investigate allegations of war crimes committed by the Myanmar military against that country’s Rohingya minority under

The Guardian
- Nov 30, 2021
Leaked Papers Link Xinjiang Crackdown With China Leadership
Secret documents urge population control, mass round-ups and punishment of Uyghurs By Patrick Wintour Chinese president Xi Jinping argued in a speech that ‘population proportion’ was a foundation for peace in Xinjiang, new documents have revealed. Photograph: Ng Han Guan/AP Excerpts from previously unpublished documents directly linking China’s crackdown on Uyghur Muslims and other minorities in Xinjiang province to speeches by the Chinese leadership in 2014 have been put onl

Eric Ross & Nat Hill | Genocide Watch
- Nov 20, 2021
Genocide Emergency: Ethiopia
Genocide Watch is issuing a Genocide Emergency Alert regarding the Ethiopian government’s persecution of the Tigrayan people in its war with the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF). Genocide Watch also condemns the TPLF’s targeting of the Amhara ethnic group. All parties to the conflict have committed gross violations of international law, including extrajudicial killings, sexual violence, and torture. Ethiopia’s ethnic fractionalization has produced dozens of ethnic mili

Christina Boldbaum & Yaqoob Akbary | NY Times
- Nov 20, 2021
ISIS Attacks Kill Three Generations of One Afghan Family
Over two weeks, the Rajabis suffered loss after loss as suicide attacks on Shiite mosques in two parts of the country ravaged their family. KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — When Masooma Rajabi saw her relatives flooding into the family’s courtyard, she broke down in sobs. Her family had congregated there twice over the past two weeks: First to mourn the loss of her husband, who had been killed in a suicide attack on a Shiite mosque in northern Afghanistan, and then again after another

The Associated Press
- Nov 18, 2021
Hate Speech in Myanmar Continues to Thrive on Facebook
By SAM McNEIL and VICTORIA MILKO FILE - Young demonstrators participate in an anti-coup mask strike in Yangon, Myanmar, on April 4, 2021. Years after coming under scrutiny for contributing to ethnic and religious violence in Myanmar, internal documents viewed by The Associated Press show that Facebook continues to have problems detecting and moderating hate speech and misinformation on its platform in the Southeast Asian nation. (AP Photo, File) Years after coming under scrut

Srecko Latal | The New York Times
- Nov 18, 2021
Bosnia Is On the Brink of Breaking Up
Milorad Dodik Credit...Dado Ruvic/Reuters By Srecko Latal Mr. Latal is a journalist, editor and analyst who has reported extensively from the Balkans since the 1990s. SARAJEVO, Bosnia and Herzegovina — A Serb strongman, who for years exploited ethnonationalist feelings to claim more power, publicly pledges to break his country apart, threatening to set off cascading conflict. The West, distracted by its own problems, barely notices. No, that’s not Yugoslavia in 1991. It’s Bos

Sarah Kane | Genocide Watch
- Nov 17, 2021
Timestream: 1937 Haitian Massacre
Genocide Watch staff have published the thirtieth Timestream in a series of critical genocides in the world.
This Timestream covers the Haitian Massacre of October 1937, in which, on President Rafael Trujillo's orders, the Dominican Republic military killed as many as 30,000 Haitians near the Dominican-Haitian border. The massacre was genocidal in nature, as the victims were targeted for their nationality and skin color. The Dominican government has never taken responsibilit

Sarah West
- Nov 16, 2021
Genocide Warning: The Jumma People in Bangladesh
Jummas and indigenous people from around the world call for the Chittagong Hill Tract peace treaty to be honored outside the UN in New York. May 2011 ¦ Survival International © Ben Powless Genocide Watch is issuing a Genocide Warning for the Jumma people in Bangladesh. Bangladesh’s indigenous people are dispersed throughout the country but are concentrated in the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) in southeast Bangladesh. Known collectively as the Jumma people, the indigenous peop

Washington Post
- Nov 15, 2021
China Perfects 21st-century Destruction of a People
A Chinese flag flutters near the Olympic rings on the Olympic Tower in Beijing on Nov. 11. (Carlos Garcia Rawlins/Reuters) Opinion: China is perfecting a 21st-century method of destroying an entire people By Fred Hiatt China’s Communist leaders, innovative in so many ways, appear to be perfecting a 21st-century approach to genocide. With the Beijing Olympics less than three months away, will Coca-Cola and other sponsors of the Games celebrate with China while this is taking p

VOA News
- Nov 15, 2021
India's Assam Evictions Heighten Insecurities of Muslims
By Anjana Pasricha Beddings and other belongings of Indian migrant laborers and homeless people lie scattered after they were evicted from the banks of Yamuna River where they were squatting during lockdown in New Delhi, India, April 15, 2020. An eviction drive in India’s northeastern state of Assam of residents living on government-owned land has heightened insecurities among the state’s Muslim population according to rights activists. The evictions being carried out in the

Allison Newey
- Nov 15, 2021
What is behind the Crisis at the Belarus-Poland Border?
Thousands of migrants and refugees have flocked to Belarus’ border with Poland, hoping to get to Western Europe. Many of them are now stranded at the frontier, setting up makeshift camps as Polish security forces watch them from behind a razor-wire fence and try to prevent them from entering the country. The European Union has accused the president of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko, of aiding illegal border crossings in retaliation for EU sanctions. Lukashenko denies encouragi

Amnesty International
- Nov 12, 2021
Tigrayans Targeted in Ethnically Motivated Detentions
EDUARDO SOTERAS/AFP via Getty Images Security forces in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, have targeted Tigrayans, including children and the elderly, with arbitrary arrests and mass detentions as part of an escalating crackdown, Amnesty International said today. Most detainees are being held without charge or access to a lawyer. The arrests have intensified since the government declared a state of emergency 10 days ago as fighters from the Tigray People’s Liberation Front