General Discussion

Following is a list of the current genocides, their location, the approximate year they began, and the death toll estimates.

-Tibet, 1953-present: 400,000-1.2 million+ Tibetans killed under the occupation of the People’s Republic of China.
It was the People’s Liberation Army of China which invaded in the 1950s and began the killings, deportations, cultural and religious suppression, and military occupation. The Chinese communist government has committed many acts of genocide, intentional famine, and ethnic cleansing over the last eight decades. Do not be fooled by their military’s name, the People’s Liberation Army, they are a communist country and use the military and the state to commit genocides and massacres.
-Sri Lanka, 1956-present: 154,000-253,818+ Tamils killed. The UN and US have been called complicit in this genocide, which had particularly violent years during their civil war which began in 1983.
-North Korean prison camps, 1959-present: Unknown thousands, perhaps millions, have passed through the vast network of prison and “reeducation” camps, with an unknown number of deaths.
Conditions are so deplorable that an estimated 40% of prisoners die of malnutrition/starvation, and unknown thousands die at the hands of the guards. As of 2019, an estimated 80,000-200,000 prisoners were imprisoned in the camp network.
-Papua New Guinea, 1962-present: 100,000-500,000 killed.
-Colombia, 1964-present: 220,000-800,000 killed and at least 7 million displaced.
-Hmong people in Southeast Asia, 1975-present: 100,000-300,000 Hmong and other minorities killed.
-Tigray, Ethiopia, 1990-present: 2-6 million people are “missing” and over 2 million are displaced.
A discrepancy of 4 million people is quite large, one might question the validity of estimates like this. There are many things preventing accurate death tolls and missing tolls, but most importantly is that the crisis is not over so proper investigations cannot be completed so information is often reported by the citizens. Most often, the people committing the genocide will underestimate the deaths or disappearances, and sometimes those suffering will inflate the numbers. Sometimes people have no birth records, often there are no death records, some people could escape and disappear themselves, and many are likely dead but there is no evidence, so they become part of the “missing” statistic.
-Afghanistan, 1996-present: An unknown amount of ethnic minorities, especially the Hazara people, killed in dozens of massacres, including the Mazar-i-Sharif massacre, when 2,000-20,000 people were killed.
In rural and impoverished areas such as in Afghanistan, people often cannot get birth certificates for their babies, thus making it harder to determine an accurate census and death toll for massacres. A study done in 2017 found that only 42% of Afghan children over age five had a birth certificate, and prior to the 21st century most adults would not have had one. Therefore, when the Taliban or ISIS/ISIL massacres a secluded village, killing undocumented people, and burning the evidence, those people did not have a birth record or a death record, and nobody was able to investigate. Victims are killed and buried in mass graves, drowned, or buried in wells, and these crimes are not often investigated by outside agencies.
-Democratic Republic of the Congo, early 2000s-present, an unknown number of deaths (they are not often counted) due to “artisanal mining” in slave-like conditions, and over 5.5 million people are displaced.
Some do not consider the crisis to be a genocide because it is forced labor, child labor, and human trafficking. And the history of slavery, generally, is not often thought of as a genocide, but slavery is in fact genocide. What is happening to the Congolese is a genocide if one only considers part of the definition from Article II of the Convention, “Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group,” and, “Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part,” regardless of mass killings or not.
-Darfur, Sudan, 2003-present: 98,000-500,000 killed and at least 10.7 million people are displaced.
-Libya, 2011-present: 15,000-30,000 killed in 2011 alone, hundreds more are killed each year, however there is strong media censorship in Libya.
-Mali, 2012-present; 10,800+ killed and over 5 million displaced.
-Syria, 2013-present; 116,000+ killed and over 11 million displaced.
--Yemen, 2014-present; 233,000+ killed and 4.5 million displaced.
-China, 2014-present; at least 2 million ethnic minorities (primarily the Uyghur ethnic group) have been detained in “re-education camps” with an unknown death toll.
-Burkina Faso, 2016-present; 1,850+ killed and at least 1 million displaced.
-Cameroon, 2016-present; 6,000+ killed and 600,000+ displaced.
-Myanmar, 2016-present; 25,000-43,000+ killed and over 1 million displaced.
-Ukraine, 2022-present; 10,000+ killed, over 12 million displaced, and between 900,000 and 1.6 million people forcibly deported to Russia, including unaccompanied abducted children.
The Former Soviet Union has a long history of forcibly displacing and relocating civilians, and those who support the Soviet brand of communism will deny this as well as the current genocide of Ukrainians. Forced deportations and removing children from families is part of the definition of genocide, as well.
-Gaza (occupied Palestine), 2023-present; 41,788+ killed, 21,000+ missing, and 2 million displaced.
Estimates of deaths rise up to 180,000+ based on historical data of genocides and a lack of data from the Gaza health ministry which collapsed a few months into the genocide.

Note: All of these death tolls are as of September 2024.