Is Guatemala's Mayan Genocide Continuing Today?
Maya Ixil women lead thousands of people marching for democracy in Guatemala City. Sandra Cuffe Source: Truthout Guatemala´s Indigenous Mayan Communities: Displacement, Cultural Destruction, and the Question of Genocide By Laura Rodriguez Martin, Genocide Watch, June 2026 For over four decades, Guatemala´s Mayan Indigenous communities have been displaced from their ancestral lands, first through massacre and scorched-earth warfare, and more recently through mining concessions
Genocide Watch
Jul 8
Fire surge in 2025 threatened isolated peoples in Brazil
June 24, 2026 Aimee Gabay Firefighters from the Chico Mendes Institute work to contain a forest fire and prevent it from reaching Chapada dos Veadeiros National Park, in Brazil’s northern Goiás state in 2025. Image by AP Photo / Eraldo Peres. In 2025, fires were responsible for a significant spike in forest loss in three territories in Brazil that are home to Indigenous peoples living in voluntary isolation, according to Global Forest Watch data analyzed by Mongabay. Indigeno
Mongabay
Jul 6
Russia Uses Education to Sustain Influence in Central Asia
By Farangis Najibullah June 2, 2026 Students attend the Russian school in the southern Tajik city of Bokhtar (Facebook). When a new Russian-language school opened its doors in Tajikistan's southern city of Bokhtar in 2022, thousands of locals flocked to enroll. Named after the 18th-century Russian scientist Mikhail Lomonosov, it was one of five Russia-funded schools that popped up across the impoverished Central Asia country that year. Part of a $150 million Russian state pro
40 Children Abducted as Boko Haram Kills Eight in Borno
Gunmen stormed a primary and junior secondary school in Mussa, while coordinated assaults on nearby Christian communities left eight people dead. By Luka Binniyat & Sulieman Ayuba Armed insurgents abducted 40 schoolchildren — including children under the age of five — during a Friday morning raid on Mussa town in Askira/Uba County, local officials told TruthNigeria. The attack came just hours after coordinated assaults on nearby Christian communities left eight people dead. T
TruthNigeria
May 17
Special Report: Colombian Community Leaders at Risk
By Juliana Girotto Genocide Watch Legislators hold photographs of social leaders who have been killed as Colombia's congress opens its new session ahead of the inauguration of leftist President-elect Gustavo Petro, in Bogota, Colombia July 20, 2022. REUTERS/Nathalia Angarita/File Photo Purchase Licensing Rights In 2024, the South American nation of Colombia saw an average of 16 community leaders killed each month, resulting in a total of 186 documented murders in 2024, or 23
Genocide Watch
Apr 26
Israeli settlers block Palestinian kids’ path to school
Palestinian students walk to school using an alternative route that is nearly twice as long because a fence separates their village from the nearby Israeli settlement of Carmel, near the West Bank village of Umm al-Khair, Tuesday, April 14, 2026. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean) Associated Press April 15, 2026 By SAM METZ and JALAL BWAITEL RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — Hajar and Rashid Hathaleen have always walked to school from their neighborhood on the outskirts of Umm al-Khair. But
Associated Press
Apr 15
China Accused of Erasing Mongolian Culture Online
By: Charlotte Lam When the Mongolian language started to disappear from classrooms in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region in China's north, many turned to the internet to keep their language and culture alive. A new investigation shows those remaining online spaces are being targeted by the Chinese government. Photo by BYAMBASUREN BYAMBA-OCHIR/AFP via Getty Images The Chinese government is targeting Mongolian language and culture in certain online spaces, systematically di
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Feb 11
Genocide Emergency: Xinjiang, China 2025
Government social media post in April 2017 shows detainees in a political education camp in Lop County, Hotan Prefecture, Xinjiang. © Xinjiang Bureau of Justice WeChat Account Genocide Emergency: Xinjiang, China 2025 Twelve million people, mostly Uyghur Muslims, live in Xinjiang, China, officially the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR). The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) seeks to assimilate Uyghurs, replacing their culture with Han Chinese language and culture. Uyghur
Genocide Watch
Dec 20, 2025
Cultural Genocide and the Kurdish Struggle in Iran
By Michał Jagielski Protesters hold up a placard reading "Stop Execution in Iran" as they take part in a rally in Berlin, Germany, Oct. 22, 2022. Iran executed four Kurds by hanging on Jan. 29, 2024, having found them guilty of charges of collaborating with Israel. Photograph: AFP The Kurds, along with other ethnic minorities in Iran, have been suffering from systemic attempts by the state to limit their autonomy and forcefully assimilate them into the dominant Iranian cultur
Genocide Watch
Nov 7, 2025
New Lines Report: Taliban Genocide Against Afghan Hazaras
Women protest the loss of innocent lives of Hazara Muslims. Source: Yahoo Images A newly released investigative legal and archival...
New Lines Institute
Sep 5, 2025
Military Can't Stop Fulani Terrorists in Nigeria’s Christian States
Outrage Grows in Nigeria’s Christian States By Mike Odeh James and Luka Binniyat Riyom Bleeds Again: Military Presence Fails to Deter...
TruthNigeria
Aug 6, 2025
Brits Committed Genocide on Indigenous Australians
Inquiry finds British committed genocide on Indigenous Australians July 2 2025 By Lana Lam The report included 100 recommendations to...
BBC News
Jul 4, 2025
