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b31cc0d4-9a82-495a-9484-ac92d5d42c0f Turkmenistan CIA World Factbook Country Overview Targeted Groups Perpetrators Alert Status Genocide Stage(s) Uzbeks Russians Politcal Dissidents Government of Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow Warning Stage 6: Polarization Details Turkmenistan is among the most repressive and authoritarian countries in the world. All basic human rights are illegal and any opposition to the government is violently repressed. Read Report Resources Think Turkmenistan Is Funny? Think Again Turkmenistan 2020-Amnesty International Focus on Ethnic Minorities- The New Humanitarian Page last updated: 6/23/2021

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e70d6fd4-3876-47a7-aff7-1994a1ffe346 Kazakhstan CIA World Factbook Country Overview Targeted Groups Perpetrators Alert Status Genocide Stage(s) Dungan people Ethnic minorities Politcal opposition Kazakh Nationalist Nazarbayev Regime Watch Stage 5: Organization and Stage 6: Polarization Details The Nazarbayev Regime is one of the most corrupt and oppressive regimes in the world. While Nursultan Nazarbayev officially left the Presidency in 2019, many believe he is still in control. Journalists, political/civil opposition, and activists are frequently detained, oftentimes tortured, and executed. Ethnic minorities also face persecution as Kazakh nationalism begins to grow in the country. Read Report Resources 'Terrifying': Eye-Witnesses Recall Kazakh Ethnic Violence As Ruins Smolder Dungan Incident Just Kazakhstan's Latest Interethnic Violence Kazakhstan Events of 2020- Human Rights Watch Page last updated: 6/23/2021

22ae7835-d4f8-4bcf-ac08-fb321a6fd30a Tajikistan World Atlas Country Overview Targeted Groups Perpetrators Alert Status Genocide Stage(s) Pamirs Journalists and activists Government opposition Kyrgyz Regime of Emomali Rahmon Tajik military Warning Stage 6: Polarization, Stage 8: Persecution Details Violent clashes along the contested border between Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan were reported in April 2021. Tajik and Kyrgyz mobs attacked one another and destroyed each other's property. Tajik military reportedly used mortars and attack helicopters on Kyrgyz civilians. Tensions between Tajikistan and neighboring Kyrgyzstan erupted again along the contested border in September 2022, resulting in the deaths of over 100 civilians and the internal displacement of 140,000 others. In May 2022 in the Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region, which comprises nearly half the country’s land area, Tajik military forces killed at least 25 protesters from the Pamir minority, a group which has faced years of oppression and state violence from the regime of Emomali Rahmon. Read Report Resources Relatives Of Victims Of Tajik Police Crackdown Still Waiting For Answers Tajikistan: Escalating Tensions And Crackdown On Human Rights Defenders And Journalists – Analysis Tempers flaring as Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan come to deadly blows Page last updated: 10/31/2022

Genocidal Processes *For older content until April 2016, please refer to our archival websites Country report: Russia August 2026 By Alexander Smith A firefighter works at a site in a residential area damaged during a Russian missile strike amid Russia’s attack on Ukraine. Kyiv, Ukraine. September 21, 2023. Image: Reuters/Valentyn Ogirenko. Russia has a long history of documented persecution of ethnic minorities and societal dissidents. Imperial Russia organized anti-Jewish pogroms. According to the Holodomor Research and Education Consortium, the Soviet Union committed a genocide against Ukrainians dur DRC Takes Rwanda to International Court of Justice By Emery Makumeno June 26, 2026 The M23 rebels have captured huge tracts of DR Congo's east The Democratic Republic of Congo has filed a case against Rwanda at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), accusing its neighbour of breaching multiple international treaties. In a statement, DR Congo said Rwanda had dispatched forces and backed armed groups to carry out unlawful military operations on its territory following the 1994 Rwandan genocide. On Friday, Congolese Justice M We're Entering a Terrifying New Era of Genocide. Child in Gaza. Source: The International Rescue Committee I’m a Scholar of Genocide. We’re Entering a Terrifying New Era. The New York Times July 21, 2026 By Omer Bartov Dr. Bartov is a professor of Holocaust and genocide studies at Brown University. How do genocides end? In most cases, there are two options. Either the perpetrators accomplish their goal, or a military force stops them, and accountability ensues. In 1904 the Imperial German Army began a campaign that nearly w Dr. Stanton On India, Hindutva, Kashmir, and Manipur Dr. Gregory Stanton, Founding President of Genocide Watch, was interviewed on July 17, 2026 by Mr. Saqib Tanveer, Editor in Chief for Pakistan TV Digital, about Genocide Watch's warnings concerning the increasing risks of genocide in India against Muslims, Christians, and other minority groups by followers of Prime Minister Modi's exclusionary Hindutva nationalist regime. To view interview, click here or on the image above. Deadly Ethnic Violence Spreads in India’s Manipur State Deadly Ethnic Violence Spreads in India’s Manipur State New York Times May 26, 2026 By Hari Kumar Three years after riots tore apart Manipur, the state remains in disarray. Barbed wire and armed checkpoints made it difficult for Times reporters to cross, even before the recent clashes. Security personnel at a buffer-zone checkpoint between Imphal and Churachandpur in Manipur, India, in March. .Credit:..All Photographs by Atul Loke A fresh outbreak of ethnic conflict is rocki Urgent Threat of Genocidal Massacres in El Obeid, Sudan Genocide Emergency July 2026 By Grace Harris The Sudanese city of El-Obeid, where a drone strike killed 10 people including seven children on Monday, a medical source told AFP. (Credit: Reuters/File) Genocide Watch is issuing a Genocide Emergency Alert for Sudan. The besieged city of El Obeid, Sudan is at immediate risk of genocidal massacres as Rapid Support Forces (RSF) surround the city now held by the Sudan Armed Forces. El Obeid, the capital of North Kordofan, lies THE CALL, TEDX TALK BY Dr. GREGORY STANTON, 2017 Dr. Gregory H Stanton The Call By Gregory Stanton TEDx Talk April 22, 2017 George Washington University Washington, DC The first time I saw Genocide was in Cambodia in 1980. Church World Service and CARE asked me and my wife, Mary Ellen, to go to Cambodia to set up a relief program. I had not sought the job. At first I didn't want to go. We wanted to start a family and thought that service in Cambodia would postpone our dream. Little did we know. But I made a fateful p Qatar Addresses crisis in Sudan at UN Human Rights Council July 3, 2026 By Qatar Ministry of Foreign Affairs At UN Human Rights Council, Geneva, July 03, 2026. Credit: Qatar Ministry of Foreign Affairs The State of Qatar has expressed deep concern over the continuing humanitarian crisis in Sudan, calling on all parties to the conflict to respect international law and engage in dialogue to reach a lasting peace. The remarks were given on Friday by HE Permanent Representative to the United Nations Office in Geneva, Dr Hind Abdulrahman Genocide Watch Gaza Report, July 2026 Palestinian woman protests the damage caused by Israeli airstrikes on Beit Hanun, northern Gaza credit: Mahmun Hams/AFP/Getty Images in The Guardian Gaza Report July 2026 By the Gaza Task Force In September 2025, a U.N. Commission Report concluded that Israel has committed four of the five acts of genocide in the Genocide Convention. Yet Israel has continued its atrocities against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. 1.9 million people have been internally displaced as Israeli 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 Country Report: Romania July 2026 The deportation of Iasi pogrom survivors by Romania's Antonescu Regime in 1941, and the disposal of those who died en route. Credit: Historisches Archiv der Stadt Koln Genocide Watch Country Report: Romania 2026 By Vladimir Kovtun In September 1940, General Ion Antonescu became Prime Minister of Romania, with the support of the fascist Iron Guard movement. Antonescu’s Government from 1940 until 1944 was allied to the Third Reich and directly participated in the Shoah. The Ant Psychological Toll as Israel Erases Lebanese Villages By Justin Salhani Displaced Lebanese face a void as war annihilates the physical and emotional anchors of their past and identity. Civilians stand outside their homes destroyed in Naqoura, southern Lebanon, in February 2025 [Raghed Waked/Al Jazeera] Beirut, Lebanon – In February 2025, Ali stood outside his house in Naqoura, in southern Lebanon, and pointed at the crack in the foundation and fruit trees pulled up by the Israeli military. The Israeli military had recently withd Troop Casualties in Ukraine War Top Two Million Russia has borne the heavier toll, with 1.4 million troops killed or wounded since it invaded in February 2022. A funeral for a Ukrainian soldier in Kyiv last year. Ukrainian forces have suffered 525,000 to 625,000 casualties, the study said. Nicole Tung for the New York Times July 1st 2026 More than two million Russian and Ukrainian troops have been killed or wounded in the four years that Russia has been waging war against its neighbor, according to a new study, a bleak mil Rohingya starvation is Myanmar's genocidal state policy Rohingya Hunger as State Policy: Food Deprivation and the Question of Genocide UK Foreign Office claims only a court can find "genocide." Sudan Is The Genocide Which Dares Not Speak Its Name – with warnings ignored by the British Foreign Office – “The world’s greatest humanitarian catastrophe” – but where are the protests against the perpetrators. My Call for Blue Helmets; an Arms Embargo Across Sudan; The Imposition of A No Fly Zone; And For War Lords To Face Justice. Jun 26, 2026 [Genocide Watch comments are highlighted in green.} Genocide Watch Report Genocidal RSF reach 500,000 people in El Obeid, Sudan Reb Taliban Ban Hazara Mourning Rites in Herat, Afghanistan By Farhaad June 24, 2026 Mourners walk through a street decorated with religious flags and banners during Muharram observances in Herat. (Photo credit: 8am.media) Local sources in Herat say that the Taliban have not permitted the observance of Tasu’a and Ashura ceremonies in the province, including street processions, chest-beating rituals, and the carrying of religious standards, and have imposed extensive restrictions on mourners. Sources told the Hasht-e Subh Daily on Wedn 1 2 3 4 5

Benin Country Overview Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. Targeted Groups Perpetrators Alert Status Genocide Stage(s) LGBTQ+ communities Women experiencing gender-based violence Political opponents The government of Benin Al-Quaeda linked armed groups Watch Stage 3: Discrimination, Stage 4: Dehumanization Details Read Report Page last updated: 07/23/2026 Resources

Nigeria Country Overview Library Of Congress Targeted Groups Perpetrators Alert Status Genocide Stage(s) Christians Moderate Muslims LGBTQIA+ People Boko Haram ISWAP Fulani Jihadists Emergency Stage 9: Extermination, Stage 10: Denial Details Nigeria has three separate genocidal events taking place. Boko Haram has been kidnapping and attacking civilians, mainly in the Northeast, to pursue their mission of eliminating Western education and creating a fundamentalist Islamic state. Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) is a splinter group of Boko Haram with a similar ideology but is distinct from Boko Haram; conflicts between the two groups recently killed Abubakar Shekau, the former leader of Boko Haram. Additionally, Fulani Jihadist herders have been killing Christian farmers in the middle belt. The death penalty is also in place, though not currently enforced, for homosexuality in Northern Nigeria, while LGBTQIA+ people face persecution throughout the country. Read Report Page last updated: 11/21/2025 Resources Ending Nigeria’s Herder-Farmer Crisis: The Livestock Reform Plan An Exit from Boko Haram? Assessing Nigeria’s Operation Safe Corridor

Mexico Country Overview CIA World Factbook Targeted Groups Perpetrators Alert Status Genocide Stage(s) Women Politicians Journalists Activists Organized crime groups Corrupt officials Police Emergency Stage 3: Discrimination, Stage 4: Dehumanization, Stage 5: Organization, Stage 6: Polarization, and Stage 8: Persecution Details In regions controlled by organized crime groups (OCGs) or regions where cartel territorial control is highly contested (usually key corridors for illicit trades), OCGs have systematically threatened, attacked, and killed journalists, activists, security servicemen, and politicians who challenge or criticize their authority. Read Report Page last updated: 10/20/2022 Resources Mexico elections preceded by spike in political killings High-Profile Criminal Violence: Why Drug Cartels Murder Government Officials and Party Candidates in Mexico Murder in Mexico: are journalists victims of general violence or targeted political violence?