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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.
Afghanistan
National group ~ 2002, 2003, 2004, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2008, 2008, 2009, ongoing, 2015 2020 2021
Hazaras ~ 2021 2022Armenia
National, religious, ethnic group 2024
Jerusalem Armenians 2024Bolivia
Indigenous and Mestizo peoples ~ 2019 2021Brazil
Amazonian tribes ~ ongoing, 2011, 2012, 2012, 2012, 2012, 2015, 2018, 2021 2022 2023Burma (See Myanmar)
Burundi
National group ~ 2015 2016 2017 2017 2019 2020Cameroun
National group ~ 2018 2018 2019 2019 2024
Anglophones ~ 2019 2020Canada
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, 2011Central African Republic
National group ~ 2013 20142015Chile
Mapuche ~ ongoing 2011 2017China
Falun Gong ~ 2009, 2009 2019
Uyghurs ~ 2019, 2021, (2021), 2022Colombia
34 Indigenous nations and the poor ~ 2012Cote d'Ivoire
National group ~ 2011Czech Republic
Roma and Sinti peoples ~ 2008, 2008, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2011, 2014, 2017Democratic People's Republic of Korea
National group ~ 2017, 2018Democratic 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 ongoingDominican Republic
People of Haitian ancestry ~ 2013 2015 2015Ethiopia
Oromo ~ 2010
Ogadeni ~ 2011 2015
Anuak ~ 2012
All Tigray peoples ~ 2021European Union (also see individual countries)
Roma peoples ~ 2010, 2011, 2011, 2017, 2017
Refugees (various individual national groups) ~ 2015, ongoingFrance
Roma ~ 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2015, 2017, 2017, 2018
Extended to other minorities ~ 2014, 2014Guatemala
Maya peoples ~ 2013 2013 2014 2015 2015 2016 2016 2016 2017 2018 2018 2019 2021 2021Haiti
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) ~ 2024Hungary
Roma ~ 2009, 2010, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2015, 2017India
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, 2011Iraq
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) 2018Israel
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, 2018Jammu and Kashmir
historically a national group 2015 2019 2019Kosovo
Roma and Sinti peoples ~ 2008, 2006, 2009, 2009, 2017Lebanon
National group ~ 2024, 2024 2024Libya
African oriented national and ethnic groups: 2011, 2011, 2012Mexico
Violation ~ 2013 2018
Mayan Indians ~ 2013, 2014Myanmar
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 2023Nigeria
Christian villages ~ 2018 2020Palestine ~ see Israel
Peru
Indigenous peoples ~ 2009, 2014, 2014, 2015, 2017, 2018, 2021 2023 2023 2023 2023South Africa
Afrikaners ~ 2012, 2013 2014 2016 2018South Sudan
National group ~ 2016 2016 2017 2017 2018Sri Lanka
Tamil people ~ 2009, 2009, 2009, 2011, 2011 2012, 2012 2013
Muslims and other minorities ~ 2019Sudan
National group ~ 2004-7, 2006, 2012 2024 2024 2024Syria
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 2019Turkey
Kurdish peoples ~ longstanding, 2012 2019Ukraine
Jewish community ~ 2014 2015 2017 2017 2018
extended to the national group ~ 2017 2022
Ethnic Russians ~ 2014 Russian Orthodox Church 2022
National group ~ 2024U.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 ~ 2018Venezuela
National group ~ 2019, 2019Yemen
National group ~ 2015, 2016 2017 2017 2017 2017 2018 2018 2018 2024Yugoslavia
National group ~ 1999 2016Zimbabwe
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.
