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nightslantern
suppressed news
concerned with the prevention of genocide
by john bart gerald
graphics by julie maas
2026
"Genocide Warnings for 2026," John Bart Gerald. This essay discusses changes in how genocide is understood and applied since humanity's experience with the Nazis of the Third Reich. It notes briefly about twenty countries with national, ethnic, or religious groups undergoing genocide or at particular risk now and in 2026, in Palestine, Sudan, the DRC, Myanmar, China, Venezuela, Guatemala, Haiti, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Nigeria, Burkina Faso, Niger, Mali, Ukraine, Cameroon, India, Kashmir, the U.S.. The list is not all-inclusive -posted December 21, 2025
A branch that comes from violence will not take root;
for a blighted root is on sheer rock, like reeds by the
banks of a river, which are dried up before any grass; but
kindness, like eternity, will never be cut off, and faithfulness
will be established forever - from Ben Sira
(Dead Sea Scrolls Bible, Abegg et al)
at first posting in 2002 this bulletin board was for emergency protests, attempts to counter genocide, anti-war information, which were suppressed in the media; my interest remains in how a society is moved into what have become genocidal wars, and how people are able to resist... it becomes a kind of history in motion and a way to counter enforced forgetfulness, the lies that say these things never happened, or that there is nothing wrong with the murders of hundreds of thousands of innocents in other countries, or the continuing move toward eradication of the poor by death, in north america; this account is against forgetfulness. - jbg 2008
by john bart gerald
graphics by julie maas
guest contributions as noted
January 1, 2026
