Where is ethnic cleansing happening now

The imagery shows many areas where Rohingya villages were reduced to smouldering rubble, while nearby ethnic Rakhine villages were left intact.

Human Rights Watch say most damage occurred in Maungdaw Township, between 25 August and 25 September - with many villages destroyed after 5 September, when Myanmar's de facto leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, said security force operations had ended. A report published by UN investigators in August accused Myanmar's military of carrying out mass killings and rapes with "genocidal intent". The ICJ case, lodged by the small Muslim-majority nation of The Gambia, in West Africa, on behalf of dozens of other Muslim countries, called for emergency measures to be taken against the Myanmar military, known as Tatmadaw, until a fuller investigation could be launched.

Aung San Suu Kyi rejected allegations of genocide when she appeared at the court in December But in January , the court's initial ruling ordered Myanmar to take emergency measures to protect the Rohingya from being persecuted and killed. While the ICJ only rules on disputes between states, the International Criminal Court ICC has the authority to try individuals accused of war crimes or crimes against humanity.

The body approved a full investigation into the case of the Rohingya in Myanmar in November. Although Myanmar itself is not a member of the court, the ICC ruled it had jurisdiction in the case because Bangladesh, where victims fled to, is a member. Myanmar has long denied carrying out genocide and says it is carrying out its own investigations into the events of The country's Independent Commission of Enquiry ICOE admitted that members of the security forces may have carried out "war crimes, serious human rights violations, and violations of domestic law", but claimed there was no evidence of genocide.

Its full report has not yet been released, but questions have been raised. With more than half a million Rohingya believed to still be living in Myanmar's northern Rakhine province, UN investigators have warned there is a "serious risk that genocidal actions may occur or recur". The situation that led to "killings, rapes and gang rapes, torture, forced displacement and other grave rights violations" in remained unchanged, the investigators said in September, blaming a lack of accountability and Myanmar's failure to fully investigate allegations or criminalise genocide.

Rakhine province itself is the site of an ongoing conflict between the army and rebels from the Buddhist-majority Rakhine ethnic group. The massive numbers of refugees who fled to Bangladesh in joined hundreds of thousands of Rohingya who had fled Myanmar in previous years.

Kutupalong, the largest refugee settlement in the world according to UNHCR, is home to more than , refugees alone. But in March , Bangladesh announced it would no longer accept Rohingya fleeing Myanmar. 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.

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It has been estimated that in the Atlantic slave trade, up to 12 million Africans were loaded and transported across the ocean under dreadful conditions. Skip to content The Genocide in Darfur. US Markets Loading H M S In the news. Michal Kranz. The Rohingya in Myanmar.

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Darfuris in Sudan. Loading Something is loading. Email address. Crimes Against Humanity. The preliminary examination followed several communications received by the Office of the Prosecutor the OTP which suggested that mass atrocities had occurred, involving Boko Haram militants based in Nigeria. Having identified multiple issues which require closer scrutiny, the OTP named six potential cases where Boko Haram had committed crimes against humanity and two cases where such crimes were committed by the Nigerian security forces.

The six cases include Boko Haram 1 targeting non-believers which resulted in several deaths; 2 kidnappings, abductions, and imprisonment of civilians, as associated with murder, torture and inhuman and degrading treatment; 3 attacks on schools, other buildings designated for education and attacks against students and teachers; 4 recruitment and use of child soldiers; 5 attacks on women and girls; 6 intentional targeting of buildings designated for religious practices, including churches and mosques.

Thousands have been affected by the litany of mass atrocities perpetrated by Boko Haram. However, among the staggering statistics, the fates of those suffering are lost. The fate of people like Leah Sharibu get lost among the suffering of thousands of people. Christians hold signs as they march on the streets of Abuja during prayer and penance for peace and The Catholic Bishops of Nigeria gathered people to pray for security and to denounce the barbaric killings of Christians by the Boko Haram insurgents and the incessant cases of kidnapping for ransom in Nigeria.

Leah Sharibu, a year-old Nigerian girl, was one of the schoolgirls abducted by Boko Haram from their school in Dapchi, Nigeria, in February Despite the fact that most of the girls have now been released, Boko Haram refused to let Leah go.

According to one of the other girls , Leah declined to renounce her Christian faith.