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Gerald and Maas began publishing the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide with primary supportive international treaties, in 1989, when it was out of print at the United Nations, and a year before the U.S. and Coalition began the invasion and destruction of Iraq (for the 1996 Canadian edition see: Common Rights & Expectations: primary international treaties protecting the rights of all people). These pages continue the concern for where humanity should draw the line to save groups of people vulnerable to those more powerful. Gerald and Maas is not: a registered NGO, part of a religious group, government funded, U.N. funded, corporately or academically funded.

 

Genocide Warnings & Updates
This is not a complete list.
Omissions are due to lack of resources or understanding.
Night's Lantern is not the judge of when atrocity crimes become genocide.

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Afghanistan
National group ~   2002,     2003,     2004,     2004,     2006,     2007,     2008,     2008,     2008,     2009,     ongoing,     2015    2020     2021
Hazaras ~ 2021     2022

Armenia
National, religious, ethnic group 2024
Jerusalem Armenians 2024

Bolivia
Indigenous and Mestizo peoples ~ 2019     2021

Brazil
Amazonian tribes ~ ongoing, 2011,     2012,     2012,     2012,     2012,     2015,     2018,     2021    2022    2023

Burma (See Myanmar)

Burundi
National group ~ 2015     2016     2017     2017     2019     2020

Cameroun
National group ~ 2018     2018     2019     2019     2024
Anglophones ~ 2019     2020

Canada
First Peoples ~ 2005,     2006,     2006,     2006,     2008,     2008     2008,     2009,     2009,     2011,    2011,    2012,    2012,     2012,     2013,     2013,     2013,     2014     2014,     2015     2016     2016,     2016,     2016,     2017,     2017,     2018     2018     2019     2020     2021     2021.
Sipekne'katik First Nation     2020    2021     2021     2021     2022     2023
Violation ~ 2012,     2014,     2014     2018     2018     2019     2019 (historical)     2019 (historical)     2019     2022 (historical)
Islamic peoples ~ 2010,     2010,     2011

Central African Republic
National group ~ 2013     2014     2015

Chile
Mapuche ~ ongoing    2011    2017

China
Falun Gong ~ 2009,     2009     2019
Uyghurs ~ 2019,     2021,     (2021),     2022

Colombia
34 Indigenous nations and the poor ~ 2012

Cote d'Ivoire
National group ~ 2011

Czech Republic
Roma and Sinti peoples ~ 2008,     2008,     2008,     2009,     2011,     2011,     2014,     2017

Democratic People's Republic of Korea
National group ~ 2017,     2018

Democratic Republic of Congo
National group ~ 2008,     2008,     2008,     2011,     2012     2017     2017     2019     2019     2024
Tribal groups in destabilized African countries ~ 2006
Peoples inhabiting lands of use to corporate enterprise. ie. 2004 ongoing

Dominican Republic
People of Haitian ancestry ~ 2013     2015     2015

Ethiopia
Oromo ~ 2010
Ogadeni ~ 2011     2015
Anuak ~ 2012
All Tigray peoples ~ 2021

European Union (also see individual countries)
Roma peoples ~ 2010,     2011,     2011,     2017,     2017
Refugees (various individual national groups) ~ 2015, ongoing

France
Roma ~ 2010,     2011,     2012,     2013,     2013,     2014,     2015,     2015,     2017,     2017,     2018
Extended to other minorities ~ 2014,     2014

Greece
Roma ~ 2017

Guatemala
Maya peoples ~ 2013     2013     2014     2015     2015     2016     2016     2016     2017     2018     2018     2019     2021     2021

Haiti
The poor [with 80% of the people in poverty this might be considered the national group] ~ ongoing     2005,     2005,     2009,     2010,     2017,     2019,     2021
The privileged (this group transcends the conventional categories noted in the Genocide Convention who become individually vulnerable) ~ 2024

Hungary
Roma ~ 2009,     2010,     2010,     2011,     2012,     2015,     2017

India
The poor, Dalits, Christians ~ 2009,     2012,     2014     2018
Bengali Muslims in the state of Assam and all India's Muslims ~ 2019     2020     2021     2022     2022
Rohingya refugees ~ 2021
See also Jammu and Kashmir.

Iran
Another Muslim civilian population ~ 2007,     2011

Iraq
National group ~ 1990,     1991,     1991,     1991,     1991,     1995,     1995,     2004,     2004,     2004,     2005,     2006,     2007,     2007,     2007,     2009,     2009,     2009,     2010,     2010,     2012,     2013,     2014,   ongoing
Ethnic minorities, including Assyrians, Christians, Yazidis, Kurds.~   2014,     (Yazidis) 2016,     (Yazidis) 2018

Israel
National group ~   2013     2018    2023    2024
Non-Jewish groups ~   2018
Palestine ~ National group ~ 2006,     2008,     passim,     2017,     2017     2020     2021     2021     2023    2023    2024
Gaza    2008,     2008,     2009,     2010,     2012,     2012,     2012,     2013,   ongoing,     2014,     2014,     2014,     2014,     2015,     2015,     2017     2018     2018     2018     2018     2020     2021     2021    2022     2023     2023    2023    2023    2023    2023    2023 (genocide)    2023 (genocide)    2024 (genocide)    2024 (genocide)    2024 (genocide)    2024 (genocide confirmed)    2024 (emergency)    2024 (genocide)    2024    2024    2024 (continuing genocide)    2024    2024
Bedouin ~ 2010,     2011,     2011,     2011,     2017
Jerusalem Armenians 2024

Italy
Roma and Sinti peoples ~ 2008,     2008,     2008,     2008,     2009,     2010,     2011,     2017,     2018

Jammu and Kashmir
historically a national group   2015     2019     2019

Kosovo
Roma and Sinti peoples ~ 2008,     2006,     2009,     2009,     2017

Lebanon
National group ~ 2024,     2024     2024

Libya
African oriented national and ethnic groups: 2011,     2011,     2012

Mexico
Violation ~ 2013    2018
Mayan Indians ~ 2013,     2014

Myanmar
Rohingya Muslims ~ 2012,     2012,     2013,     2013,     2014,     2015,     2016,     2017,     2017,     2017     2017     2017     2018     2018     2018     2018     2018    2018    2019    2019     2019     2019     2020     2020     2020     2022     2023     2024
Christians, Karen, Kachin, Shan peoples and others ~   2013,     2013,     2015,     2015     2018     2022     2023

Nigeria
Christian villages ~ 2018     2020

Palestine ~ see Israel

Peru
Indigenous peoples ~ 2009,     2014,     2014,     2015,     2017,     2018,     2021     2023     2023     2023     2023

Rwanda
Hutu ~ 2010

Slovakia
Roma peoples ~ 2017

South Africa
Afrikaners ~ 2012,     2013     2014     2016     2018

South Sudan
National group ~ 2016     2016     2017     2017     2018

Sri Lanka
Tamil people ~ 2009,     2009,     2009,     2011,     2011     2012,     2012     2013
Muslims and other minorities ~ 2019

Sudan
National group ~ 2004-7,     2006,     2012    2024    2024    2024

Syria
National group ~ 2012,     2013,     2013,     2013,     2016,     2016,     2017,     2017,     2017     2024
All minorities, particularly Alawites, Shiites; Christians: Melkites, Maronites, Syriacs, Orthodox; Armenians; Palestinians; Kurds; Turkmen; Communists ~ 2013     (Yazidis) 2016,     (Kurds) 2018,     2018,     2018     2019    2019

Tanzania
Maasai ~ 2022

Turkey
Kurdish peoples ~ longstanding, 2012  2019

Ukraine
Jewish community ~ 2014     2015     2017     2017     2018
extended to the national group ~   2017     2022
Ethnic Russians ~ 2014     Russian Orthodox Church 2022
National group ~ 2024

U.S.
First Peoples ~ 2006,     2008,     2009,     2011,     2013     2018
Violation ~ 2012     2019 (historical)
Black people (and the poor) ~ 2005,     2006     2014,     2024
Muslims ~ 2007,     2010,     2011,     2011,     2013
All minorities ~ 2011
Prisoners ~ 2012,     2013,     2014
The People ~ 2014,     2014
The people of South Carolina and Georgia ~ 2020,     2022
Refugees ~ 2018

Venezuela
National group ~ 2019,     2019

Yemen
National group ~ 2015,     2016     2017     2017     2017     2017     2018     2018     2018     2024

Yugoslavia
National group ~ 1999     2016

Zimbabwe
National group ~ 2008,     2009

 


The application under law of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide varies according to country and situation and degree of corporate controls. The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights   website   provides links to the texts of the United Nations human rights treaties including the Convention against Genocide. The current status of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, as of October 25, 2016, was 147 Nation States listed as Party to the Convention, including 41 as Signatories. Applicable within the law of most nations the Convention against Genocide may also be effected by the permanent International Criminal Court, empowered to deal with "the crime of genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, and the crime of aggression," as "the most serious crimes of concern to the international community" (see the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court [access:"https://www.icc-cpi.int/resource-library/Documents/RS-Eng.pdf" ]. See also: Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, treaty and ratification status, [access: "https://treaties.un.org/Pages/ViewDetails.aspx?src=TREATY&mtdsg_no=XVIII-10&chapter=18&clang=_en"]). By October 17, 2007, 105 countries were party to the Rome Statute as law. As of June 1, 2008, 108 Nation States were party to the Rome Statute. As of July 21, 2009, 110 Nation States were party. As of August 10, 2012, 121 Nation States were party. As of March 19, 2013, the ICC lists 122 State Parties to the Rome Statute. By January 16, 2016, the ICC lists 123 Nation State party to the Rome Statute.
 
 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
 
 
   

 

 


by John Bart Gerald; image by Julie Maas
Updated 5 december 2024