On February 24, 2023, BBHAGSIA President Siphiwe Baleka joined lawyers, scholars and activists from around the world at the 9TH ANNUAL GENOCIDE AND HUMAN RIGHTS RESEARCH CONFERENCE held at Northeastern Illinois University in Chicago, IL. According to Mr. Baleka,
“While genocide has and is being committed against Afro Descendants in the United States, as a legal strategy to secure reparatory justice, genocide campaigns have not succeeded. No case has yet been brought before the International Court of Justince (ICJ) on our behalf. However, due to new dna testing technology and genealogy research, it is now much easier to prove that ethnocide has been committed at both the individual and group level and this is generally accepted by the international community. Therefore, we should switch from genocide campaigns to ethnocide campaigns in international forums and especially at the ICJ. It’s a much better strategy.”
Mr. Baleka’s presentation
“Ethnocide: Genocide’s Twin Sister”
