Last month, the UN's emergency relief coordinator, Stephen O'Brien, warned that he had seen "the early warnings of genocide" during a recent visit to the country.
In the mid-nineties, when he was head of peacekeeping, he presided over catastrophically failed missions in Bosnia and in Rwanda, where he ignored detailed warnings of genocide, then watched them come true, while the world did nothing to stop it.
In the rest of the country, religious and ethnic attacks have led to warnings of genocide, with attacks on Christians by Seleka fighters and reprisals by Christian militiamen known as "anti-balaka".
A protracted civil war is escalating in the region a brutal and forgotten conflict that has prompted warnings of genocide from the UN.
Last year, the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum said we may be seeing "early warning signs of genocide" against the Rohingya in Rakhine.
"Isis's campaign of terror against the innocent, including the Christian minority, and its grotesque targeted acts of violence show all the warning signs of genocide".
Genuine, deep, long-term study of the Holocaust has the power to sensitize people, raise awareness of the other, help identify the preliminary warning signs of genocide, and put the brakes in place.
John Kerry has declared a campaign by Islamic militants to overrun Iraq has "all the warning signs of genocide" as the US launched its first air strike against Islamic State artillery.
She contributed to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum's 2015 report, "Early warning signs of Genocide in Burma," the award-winning documentaries Boat People, Journey to Hell, and Blood Jade, and the award-winning book Modeslavar.
We must learn to recognize the early warning signs of genocide and move quickly to marshal international cooperation, to bring diplomatic and economic pressure to bear against those who violate the norms of civilized behavior.
