This website is devoted to a certain segment of news about genocide and genocide studies in the world and is not intended as a steady source of news information about all current events.  However, it is too inappropriate for us to continue without taking the strongest note about the ongoing cruel and brutal genocidal campaign Russia is waging in the Ukraine!

The facts of the several ongoing genocides in our world today — including the Uighurs, Rohingya, Yazidi, Christians in various countries, and more in Africa such as in Yemen and Ethiopia — tell us resoundingly that to date we have failed in our hopes and pretentions of genocide prevention.  Moreover, the eruption of the Russian monster of genocide, when Russia is a key signator and permanent Security Council power, signals the overwhelming failure of the machinery that we have developed to date to reach towards “Never Again.”

A basic revision of the machinery of the world international governance system is called for.

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RUSSIA’S EXTREME BRUTALITY IN ITSELF HAS GENERATED SERIOUS FEARS OF THE POSSIBILITY OF RUSSIA’S USE OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS, AND INDEED THERE HAVE BEEN EXPLICIT THREATS OF SUCH WEAPONS BY THE RUSSIANS

Ksenia Svetlova, a former member of the Israeli Knesset and now a policy fellow at the Institute for Policy and Strategy at Reichmann University in Israel has written:

The question is what will happen if Russia can’t achieve [her] goal using conventional weapons.  Its propagandists aren’t shy of reminding the world that Russia always has other, even more frightening and devastating options.

See Svetlova, Ksenia (April 7, 2022). Russia’s chilling manifesto for genocide in Ukraine: Over the last few days, Russia’s propaganda operation has escalated its efforts to explain the logic beyond this ‘special military operation.’ Haaretz English Edition.