"All over the world, people – and whole communities – are suffering from persecution purely because of their religion or beliefs. This kind of violence – including attempts to annihilate whole religious groups – is on the rise. In the past five years alone, there have been two mass atrocities which meet the United Nations’ legal definition of genocide." -
Modern Examples
ISIS Reign of Terror
The Rohingya Crisis
Since 2017, almost 671 thousand Rohingya refugees have fled their home country because of this mass genocide being committed by the Burmese Government. It all started in August of 2017 when a rogue attack on 30 police posts. In the following month around 6,000 adults and over 700 children were killed. Today, still half a million Rohingya reside in the Northern part of Myanmar, but the UN believes those civilians are still at a risk of being killed.
Oppression in China
ISIS has used social media as a huge platform to encourage violence against Christians, Jews, Hindus and many other religions. On March 15. 2016 the U.S. house of representatives condemned ISIS and held a unanimous vote classifying their actions as war crimes, crimes against humanity and acts of genocide. ISIS controls a large portions of Iraq and Syria where the Yazidi population has suffered the most. More than 400,000 Yazidis have been displaced, captured or killed since August of 2014 with numbers in all locations and religions continuing to rise.
Persecution in Pakistan
Over 2.5 million Christians are being attacked because of their personal and religious beliefs in the country of Pakistan. When asked this, the Pakistan president denied it and immediately turned towards the UK's problems trying to change the subject. Since 1987, almost 1,500 Christians have been charged with Blasphemy in Pakistan. Since 2005 multiple occasions where there have been mobs of people, attacking schools, homes and churches by the Islamic community
Religion in China is not something for the individual to decide. China's citizens are told to follow the communist party and if they do not abide then they face consequences. One of these consequences include being sent to one of China's "re-education" camps. The majority of those sent to these camps are Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities where they also must learn mandarin. It is estimated that up to 2 million religious minorities are imprisoned within the walls of these camps.
