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Another Genocide Awareness Month is here
April is Genocide Awareness Month. April was selected because of the number of genocides that started in April. The Rwandan, Armenian, and Iraqi Kurd genocides all started during this month. Genocide Awareness Month is crucial for educating the world about past and current genocides. As time passes, memories of the atrocities fade. This makes the soil fertile for more violence. It would be nice to think of genocide as something that happened a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away but it is happening right now in spots around the globe.
I work with No Business with Genocide. We work to cut funding off to genocidal regimes. If you would like to help us, please click here. Here are some of the things we are working on:
End the genocide in China
People belonging to ethnic, cultural, and religious groups in northwestern China, including Uyghurs, Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, and Hui, are currently the target of the largest organized detention of an ethnoreligious minority the world has seen since World War II. Since 2017, over one million have been detained. Detainees are made to work under constant surveillance, with assigned minders and no freedom to leave. Their forced labor contributes to the production of goods for numerous multinationals.