Today is the United Nations International Day of Commemoration and Dignity of the Victims of the Crime of Genocide and of the Prevention of This Crime. (UN press release.) It marks Saturday’s 75th Anniversary of the 1948 Genocide Convention. The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom also issued a press release marking the occasion, saying in part:
USCIRF notes with deep sadness that since the convention’s ratification, millions of people, including those targeted on the basis of religion, have been killed in genocidal campaigns by states and nonstate actors alike.