ISIS Committed Genocide Against Yazidis in Syria and Iraq, UN says
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[quote]GENEVA — Islamic State forces have committed genocide and other war crimes in a continuing effort to exterminate the Yazidi religious minority in Syria and Iraq, United Nations investigators said on Thursday, urging stronger international action to halt the killing and to prosecute the terrorist group.
The investigators detailed mass killings of Yazidi men and boys who refused to convert to Islam, saying they were shot in the head or their throats were slit, often in front of their families, littering roadsides with corpses. Dozens of mass graves have been uncovered in areas recaptured from Islamic State and are being investigated.
The investigators have produced 11 reports documenting wide-ranging crimes against humanity and war crimes committed by many parties to the five-year-old civil war in Syria, but in a report released on Thursday, they invoked the crime of genocide. They based their findings on actions taken by the Islamic State since August 2014 against 400,000 members of the Yazidi community, followers of a centuries-old religion drawing on many faiths.[/quote]
[url]http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/17/world/middleeast/isis-genocide-yazidi-un.html[/url]
[url]http://www.reuters.com/article/us-mideast-crisis-syria-yazidi-idUSKCN0Z20WR[/url]
[url]http://www.wsj.com/articles/u-n-says-islamic-state-committing-genocide-against-yazidi-minority-in-iraq-and-syria-1466104934[/url]
....how long till we find death camps.
finally
[QUOTE=Swilly;50537121]....how long till we find death camps.[/QUOTE]
there are probably no death camps and i actually think this is important for exactly that reason. genocide doesn't have to take place in the exact same dimensions as the holocaust for it to count. it should be a much more comprehensive term and it should be deployed in exactly these circumstances. people need to recognize how normative the act of extermination is, how reliant on intent it is. people need to understand the banality of these episodes, how often they actually happen and how its no less terrible each time.
[QUOTE=Swilly;50537121]....how long till we find death camps.[/QUOTE]
I doubt ISIS would go through the effort of creating death camps instead of just shooting every Yazidi they find on the spot and throwing them into a mass grave
[editline]17th June 2016[/editline]
Perhaps after torture or rape
[QUOTE=Kommodore;50537178]finally
there are probably no death camps and i actually think this is important for exactly that reason. genocide doesn't have to take place in the exact same dimensions as the holocaust for it to count. it should be a much more comprehensive term and it should be deployed in exactly these circumstances. people need to recognize how normative the act of extermination is, how reliant on intent it is. people need to understand the banality of these episodes, how often they actually happen and how its no less terrible each time.[/QUOTE]
A sad but good example is the Rwandan genocide where 500,000 to a million people got killed during 4 months with machetes, guns and clubs. Very sad.
The assyrian (mainly christian ethnic group) people also feel they are facing genocide from kurds and from ISIS.
source : an assyrian forum I happened upon a few weeks back
i'm sure whoever isn't a sunni and in general doesn't follows their law faces death.
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