UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY RESOLUTION 260: Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide December 9, 1948
“Genocide has occurred so often and so uncontested in the last fifty years that an epithet more apt in describing recent events than the oft-chanted ‘Never Again’ is in fact ‘Again and Again’” -Samantha Powers
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TODAY: Source: Genocide. Watch. com
Iraq/Syrian Genocide Perpetrators: ISIS, Al-Assad Regime, Free Syrian Army, and Al-Nursa Front Victims: Christians, Shiite Muslims, Yazidis, Kurds, and LGBTQ+ Community Death Toll: An estimated 100, 000 innocent civilians killed since 2011
CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC GENOCIDE Perpetrators: Anti-Balaka Christian majority groups Victims: Seleka Muslim minority groups Death Toll: Unknown, but thousands are fleeing.
International Resolutions: -Declare them and call them a genocide. -Grant Refugee status and travel rights for affected groups. -International community needs to hold perpetrators accountable. -UN needs to intervene with proper peacekeeping forces.
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