Israel National News reports: “Islamic State terrorists may have committed genocide in trying to wipe out the Yazidi minority in Iraq, the UN said Thursday in a report laying out a litany of atrocities, according to AFP.
ISIS ‘may have committed all three of the most serious international crimes - namely war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide,’ the United Nations human rights office said in a statement.
The agency published a horrifying report detailing killings, torture, rape, sexual slavery and the use of child soldiers by the group.
All of these crimes, it said, were violations of international human rights and humanitarian law, and some may amount to ‘crimes against humanity’ and ‘war crimes.’
The report, which is based on interviews with more than 100 witnesses and survivors of attacks in Iraq between June 2014 and February 2015, especially highlights brutal ISIS attacks on ethnic and religious groups, including Yazidis, Christians, Turkmen, Kurds and Shia.
ISIS, which controls a swathe of territory in Iraq and neighboring Syria, launched ‘a series of systematic and widespread attacks’ on the Yazidi minority's heartland in the northern Nineveh province last August.
According to the report, the attacks appeared intended ‘to destroy the Yazidi as a group,’ which ‘strongly suggests’ ISIS is guilty of ‘genocide’ against the Yazidi.
In numerous Yazidi villages, men and boys over the age of 14 were rounded up and shot, while the women and girls were abducted as the ‘spoils of war.'…”
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ISIS ‘may have committed all three of the most serious international crimes - namely war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide,’ the United Nations human rights office said in a statement.
The agency published a horrifying report detailing killings, torture, rape, sexual slavery and the use of child soldiers by the group.
All of these crimes, it said, were violations of international human rights and humanitarian law, and some may amount to ‘crimes against humanity’ and ‘war crimes.’
The report, which is based on interviews with more than 100 witnesses and survivors of attacks in Iraq between June 2014 and February 2015, especially highlights brutal ISIS attacks on ethnic and religious groups, including Yazidis, Christians, Turkmen, Kurds and Shia.
ISIS, which controls a swathe of territory in Iraq and neighboring Syria, launched ‘a series of systematic and widespread attacks’ on the Yazidi minority's heartland in the northern Nineveh province last August.
According to the report, the attacks appeared intended ‘to destroy the Yazidi as a group,’ which ‘strongly suggests’ ISIS is guilty of ‘genocide’ against the Yazidi.
In numerous Yazidi villages, men and boys over the age of 14 were rounded up and shot, while the women and girls were abducted as the ‘spoils of war.'…”
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