Genocide Watch®: The International Campaign to End Genocide

Genocide Watch has three levels of Genocide Alerts®.

A Genocide Watch is declared when early warning signs indicate the danger of mass killing or genocide.

A Genocide Warning is called when politicide or genocide is imminent, often indicated by genocidal massacres.

A Genocide Emergency is declared when genocide is actually underway.

 

 

 

 

Photo by Brian Steidle, used with permission.

Genocide Emergency: Sudan Since the Bush Administration first recognized the genocide in Darfur, at least 250,000 more men, women, and children have died.  Using its own military and the Janjaweed militia, Sudan’s regime has conducted a systematic campaign to kill and drive out Darfur’s ethnic Fur, Massalit, and Zhagawa peoples.  Supported by aircraft and helicopter gunships, the Janjaweed attack towns, villages, and refugee camps, kill the men and boys, rape the women and girls, and poison the wells.  Their goal is to replace these African peoples with Arab herders.  Updates

Genocide Warning: Chad BBC News reports that "Chad's government has accused Sudan of 'exporting the genocide' in Darfur across the border," while the New York Times' Nicholas Kristof writes "Over the past week, Sudan has sponsored a full-scale invasion of Chad, seeking to oust Chad's president and replace him with the warlord who has overseen the murder, rape and pillage in those border areas. Sudan seems determined to extend its genocide to Chad, and the upshot is that the catastrophe of Darfur may now be multiplied manyfold." Updates

Genocide Warning: Ethiopian Anuak December 13, 2005 will mark the second anniversary of the massacre of 424 Anuak educated leaders in Gambella, Ethiopia who were hacked, clubbed and shot to death by Ethiopian defense troops and some highlander militia groups in a three-day orgy of killing. Human rights investigators report that the number of dead or those who have disappeared may actually total more than fifteen hundred persons. Yet, the Ethiopian government refuses to acknowledge any responsibility or interest despite scores of witnesses, evidence and documentation. Updates

Politicide Warning: Zimbabwe Genocide is a process and not an event.  The Mugabe regime has committed genocide before and it has begun the genocidal process again. Beginning on May 19, 2005, Operation Murambatsvina (“Operation Drive out the Filth”), having already left 700,000 homeless, and directly impacting the lives of a further 2.4 million, is the most recent manifestation of the Mugabe/ZANU-PF’s systematic progression toward a governmental policy of overt mass murder. Updates

Politicide and Genocide Watch: Burma Burma, Southeast Asia’s most oppressed nation, remains under the forty-three year tyranny of a military junta and should be a grave concern to the international community.  Abuse of ethnic minorities, mass rape of women, mandatory relocations, extrajudicial state executions, military recruitment of children, and forced labor are only a few of the many violations of human rights currently practiced in the resource rich but economically impoverished nation.1  The regime change of 2004 which deposed General Khin Nyunt in favor of Lieutenant General Soe Win continues to suppress the strong movement for democracy, keeping Burma in a cyclical state of tyranny. Updates

Politicide Watch: Uzbekistan Six years ago, a series of bombs exploded in the administrative center of Tashkent, the capital of Uzbekistan.  That same day, President Islam Karimov stated that “in order to save peace and calm in the republic,” he was willing to sacrifice the lives of a few. Although the context of his declaration implies that he is referring to terrorists, the subsequent arrests of more than 7,000 Uzbeks reveal that the president’s perception of a national threat actually means anyone who disputes his absolute authority.   Genocide Watch has concluded that the government of Uzbekistan is using the real threat of Islamic extremism as a pretext for silencing popular expressions of discontent. Updates