5 genocides that are still going on today

After a grueling, five-year trial, Ratko Mladi', the general of the Bosnian Serb Army during the Bosnian civil war in the '90s, was convicted of war crimesincluding genocide on Wednesday by a United Nations court at The Hague.He was sentenced to life in prison.He was also found responsible forthe 1995 massacre of over 8,000 Muslim Bosniak men and boys in Srebrenica in Bosnia and Herzegovina, which is considered the worst atrocity committed in Europe since World War II. Many victims of the massacre are still being identified to this day.Even thoughMladi' is one of the most high-profile perpetrators of genocide convicted in recent years, genocides are by no means a thing of the past.Here are five genocides going on right now around the world:SEE ALSO:The US has taken a backseat on preventing genocide since well before Trump became presidentThe Rohingya in MyanmarPerhaps the most high-profile genocide of recent years is that of the Rohingya, who live in Rakhine state in northwestern Myanmar.Unlike the majority of the Buddhist country, the Rohingya are Muslim, and have long sufferedas second-class citizens inMyanmar because most people in the country believe they are illegal immigrants and "terrorists" from Bangladesh.US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson officially declared the Rohingya crisis a case ofethnic cleansing on Wednesday. So far,up to 3,000 people have been killed in Myanmar, and at least 270,000 have been displaced.The Nuer and other ethnic groups in South SudanSouth Sudan became the world's newest country in 2011, but since 2013, the country has been mired in a brutalcivil war.Throughout the multifaceted conflict, South Sudan's President Salva Kiir, a member of the Dinka ethnic group, has been using his army to wage a campaign of genocide and ethnic cleansing against the Dinka's main rival ethnic group, the Nuer, as well as other smaller local groups. The Nuer havetaken part in ethnic cleansing against the Dinka as well.The UK has branded these targeted killings and rapes as genocide. Although the Dinka-Nuer conflict has taken center stage in South Sudan, many smaller ethnic groups have also been implicated in the dizzying array of ethnic violence in the country.Christians and Yazidis in Iraq and SyriaAs the terrorist group ISIS carved its caliphate out of war-torn Syria and Iraq in 2014 and 2015, it extended its reach over various non-Muslim communities and ethnic groups, including Yazidis and Shiites Iraq, as well as AssyrianChristians livingin both Syria and Iraq.In brutal, genocidal campaigns in both countries, ISIS sought to systematically exterminate Yazidis, Shiites, and Christians and destroy their villages. They also carried out mass rapes in these communities. Although numbers remain hazy, thousands of people have been killed in these related genocides.As of this week, ISIS has officially been defeated territorially, but the effects of their genocides continue to wreak havoc on people in the region. Khider Domle, Yazidi researcher based in Dohuk, Iraq, says the secondary effects of the genocideare stillvery present inYazidi communities in Iraq."Our psychological, social and religious identity has been destroyed," Domle told Al Jazeera. "People are living all over the place, and they don't know what the future is. There have been no initiatives from the Iraqi government to help the displaced people return back to Sinjar; no national reconciliation process; no attempt to rebuild ruined infrastructure."See the rest of the story at Business Insider
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