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Ongoing Atrocities
- South Sudan
- Darfur in Sudan
- Democratic Republic of Congo
- Eastern Burma
- Syria
- Libya
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United to End Genocide is building the largest activist organization in America dedicated to preventing and ending genocide and mass atrocities worldwide. I worked with them in college and created this site to highlight issues and share resources they have provided.
Human Rights
Ending impunity for perpetrators of genocide and mass atrocities and providing measures of justice to survivors is essential for creating peace and preventing future genocides. The international community must help bring perpetrators to justice regardless of how many obstacles need to be overcome or how much time it takes.
From 1983-2005, the North and South fought a brutal civil war which led to the deaths of an estimated two million Southerners and displaced an additional four million civilians. Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir's forces not only directly attacked the South but also manipulated tribal tensions to create internal conflict that still persists today. While the Sudanese government and the Sudan People's Liberation Movement/Army (SPLM/A) signed a peace agreement in 2005, Bashir has continued to support instability in the South.
Millions of innocent Darfurians are affected by ongoing genocide launched by the Sudanese government more than four years ago. Hundreds of thousands have been killed and more than 2.5 million have been displaced. 250,000 were displaced in 2007 alone. The government of Sudan and its Janjaweed proxy militias systematically destroy the livelihoods of Darfurians through bombing and burning villages, looting economic resources, and committing crimes against humanity, such as the murder, rape, and torture of innocent civilians.
Since late August 2007, civilians have been targeted by widespread mass atrocities by a number of groups who have triggered a resurgence of violence in the North Kivu region of the Democratic Republic of Congo. More than 500,000 people have been newly displaced since 2007, bringing the total of Internally Displaced People to at least 860,000. A recent report by the International Rescue Committee states that war, disease and malnutrition kill nearly 45,000 Congolese per month.
The Burmese military regime has been launching major counter-insurgency campaigns that have led to widespread mass atrocities against civilians of ethnic minorities. More than 650,000 people have been displaced and 3,500 villages burned. Government troops have been abusing civilians who have been holding large-scale pro-democracy protests led by Burmese monks.
The UN estimates that over 100,000 Syrians have fled the country in the month of August 2012 alone, and that up to 5,000 Syrians are fleeing the country each day. An additional one million Syrians are thought to be internally displaced, and the UN humanitarian chief Valerie Amos warns that approximately 2.5 million people within the country are in need of aid.
In reaction to widespread unrest across the region demonstrators in Libya staged a "Day of Rage" protesting Qaddafi's rule. Initial protests in Tripoli quickly spread across the country, prompting a violent response by Qaddafi's government as security forces opened fire on protesters. The Libyan despot used fighter jets, tanks, snipers and heavy artillery to target civilians in major urban areas.