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Both China and Russia have blocked many United Nations resolutions on Darfur because of their support for the Sudanese government, a big trading partner. China invests heavily in Sudanese oil. Russia and China opposed UN peace keeping troops in Sudan.

Since the ousting of Omar al-Bashir in early , the Sudanese government has established and retained a transitional government. Although this government recently did agree to turn to turn over al-Bashir to the ICC, its next steps and transition to a permanent government remain to be seen.

Arbitrary detention, torture, limitations of the freedom of press, and gender-based violence continue to be seen in both Darfur and Sudan as a whole under this new government. Sudan — Darfur. Pro-government militia in Darfur. SLM combatants. President Omar al-Bashir. Arab Janjaweed. Darfur refugee camp in Chad. Darfur children in an IDP camp. Contact us We want to hear from you. E-mail: info worldwithoutgenocide. Paul, MN Of the remaining population, the adult and teenage males were separated from the deportation caravans and killed under the direction of Young Turk functionaries.

Women and children were driven for months over mountains and desert, often raped, tortured, and mutilated. Deprived of food and water, they fell by the hundreds of thousands along the routes to the desert.

Ultimately, more than half the Armenian population 1,, people was annihilated. The Hereros were herdsmen who migrated to the region in the 17th and 18th centuries. After a German presence was established in the region in the s, the Herero territory was annexed in as a part of German South West Africa. A series of uprisings against German colonialists, from —, led to the extermination of approximately four-fifths of the Herero population.

After Herero soldiers attacked German farmers, German troops implemented a policy to eliminate all Hereros from the region, including women and children. The genocide of peoples indigenous to the U. Beginning in , the U. In the series of interments and thousand-mile forced marches which followed, entire peoples were decimated. Unlike most twentieth-century cases of premeditated mass killing, the African slave trade was not undertaken by a single political force or military entity during the course of a few months or years.

The transatlantic slave trade lasted for years, from the s to the s, as a series of exchanges of captives reaching from the interior of sub-Saharan Africa to final purchasers in the Americas. So far, up to 3, people have been killed in Myanmar, and at least , have been displaced. South Sudan became the world's newest country in , but since , the country has been mired in a brutal civil war.

Throughout the multifaceted conflict, South Sudan's President Salva Kiir, a member of the Dinka ethnic group, has been using his army to wage a campaign of genocide and ethnic cleansing against the Dinka's main rival ethnic group, the Nuer, as well as other smaller local groups.

The Nuer have taken part in ethnic cleansing against the Dinka as well. The UK has branded these targeted killings and rapes as genocide. Although the Dinka-Nuer conflict has taken center stage in South Sudan, many smaller ethnic groups have also been implicated in the dizzying array of ethnic violence in the country.

As the terrorist group ISIS carved its caliphate out of war-torn Syria and Iraq in and , it extended its reach over various non-Muslim communities and ethnic groups, including Yazidis and Shiites Iraq, as well as Assyrian Christians living in both Syria and Iraq.

In brutal, genocidal campaigns in both countries, ISIS sought to systematically exterminate Yazidis, Shiites, and Christians and destroy their villages. They also carried out mass rapes in these communities. Although numbers remain hazy, thousands of people have been killed in these related genocides. As of this week, ISIS has officially been defeated territorially , but the effects of their genocides continue to wreak havoc on people in the region.

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