The phrase "are facing genocide" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing groups or populations that are experiencing systematic extermination or severe oppression.
Example: "The reports indicate that several communities in the region are facing genocide due to ongoing conflicts."
Alternatives: "are experiencing genocide" or "are subjected to genocide".
Mr. Mladic, 68, who has eluded capture for 15 years, is facing genocide charges from a United Nations court in The Hague.
But Vojislav Seselj, a nationalist firebrand, made a surprisingly strong showing, after an endorsement by Mr. Milosevic from his jail cell in The Hague, where he is facing genocide charges before a United Nations war crimes tribunal.
Reports indicate he had been browsing White Supremacist and neonazi websites and had come to believe that White people were facing genocide at the hands of non-Whites, Hispanics and Jews.
Mr. Nadesan rejected calls for his forces to disarm, saying the Tamils of northern Sri Lanka were facing "the worst genocide of the 21st century" at the hands of the government.
I have not received a single plea from any women's rights groups calling for solidarity with the Yazidi and Christian women whose communities are facing a genocide.
It's a cliché, but it takes on a whole new meaning when you are sitting across from a member of the Diaguita Huascoaltinos indigenous community in Chile who says that his people are facing a genocide if Canadian mining interests in his region have their way.
They all face life behind bars for crimes against humanity and two of them, Nuon Chea and the regime's former president, Khieu Samphan, are facing additional charges of genocide.
When viewers are facing the aftermath of genocide in Rwanda, in which hundreds of thousands of Tutsis were slaughtered in 1994, it's easy to think that ice cream is a comparatively petty concern.
They are facing a human catastrophe and risk a real genocide".
