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Dear Friend,
August marks the anniversaries of two recent genocides: the Rohingya in Burma and the Yazidi in Iraq. These atrocities highlight the often overlooked but increasingly unavoidable gendered crimes of genocide.
Systematic sexual violence was integral to the campaigns that targeted the Rohingya and Yazidi communities for annihilation. Unless these crimes are recognized and prosecuted as genocide, the international community will continue to miss the warning signs and fail to intervene before the next genocide takes place.
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