Islamic State onslaught on Yazidis may be attempted genocide: UN

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Islamic State onslaught on Yazidis may be attempted genocide: UN

Reuters

Oct 22, 2014 at 05:01pm IST

United Nations: The campaign of Islamic State militants against Iraq's Yazidi minority may be attempted genocide, UN Assistant Secretary-General for human rights Ivan Simonovic said on Tuesday.

"Facts are indicating that actions against Yazidis may amount to attempted genocide," he told a small group of reporters at the United Nations after returning from a recent visit to Iraq.

Simonovic was speaking as Islamic State, often referred to as ISIL or ISIS, advanced on Iraq's Sinjar mountain, tightening a siege of thousands of stranded Yazidis, who called on the United States and its allies to act to avert more bloodshed.

Islamic State onslaught on Yazidis may be attempted genocide: UN

Thousands of Yazidis have been shot, buried alive or sold into slavery by Islamic State militants, who regard them as devil-worshippers.

US President Barack Obama authorized air strikes in Iraq in August, citing the duty to prevent an impending genocide of Yazidis at the hands of Islamic State militants after they overran a vast swathe of northern Iraq.

The 1948 UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide defines genocide as an intent to destroy in whole or in part a national, ethical, racial or religious group.

The convention says this can be done by killing members, causing serious bodily or mental harm to members, deliberately inflicting conditions on the group calculated to bring about its physical destruction, preventing births within the group or forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.

Simonovic said that Islamic State was forcing Yazidis to either convert to Islam or be killed with the intent of destroying the religious group.

Islamic State originally attacked the area around Sinjar, in northwestern Iraq, in August. A renewed assault began at dawn on Monday, when militants driving Humvees and civilian vehicles attacked several Yazidi residential compounds, forcing the Yazidis to retreat up the mountain.

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MAY BE?

Freaking U.N. bunch of candy a$$ess.

PRAY FOR REVIVAL EVERYDAY

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MAY BE?

Freaking U.N. bunch of candy a$$ess.

PRAY FOR REVIVAL EVERYDAY

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That is exactly what I said.  Maybe??  It ticks me off to hear the lies that islam is a peaceful religion and christians are being genocid'd and uprooted all over the m.e. and no one says a word.   And now that the Yazidi's have scolded the Iraqi parliament, the UN decides there MIGHT be a problem.   Their blind eye will be awakened when they meet their Lord and Savior and he says I NEVER KNEW YOU. 

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Ya think?

Maybe?

Get a grip you idiots.