Iraq's UN Ambassador told the United Nations Security Council that the Islamic State (IS) is committing genocide in Iraq and called for them to face international justice.
Reuters reported Iraq's UN Ambassador Mohamed Ali Alhakim as saying “these terrorist groups have desecrated all human values.” “They have committed the most heinous criminal terrorist acts against the Iraqi people whether Shi'ite, Sunni, Christians, Turkmen, Shabak or Yazidis”.
"These are in fact crimes of genocide committed against humanity that must be held accountable before international justice," he further told the UN Security Council, adding “Iraq continues to require assistance to reconstruct liberated areas”.
Last year the People’s Protection Units (YPG) had warned of a genocide in the Kurdish enclave of Kobani in Syria, which was surrounded by Islamic State (IS) fighters at the time.
See our earlier posts:
ISIS to be investigated for war crimes in UN Commission of Inquiry on Syria (26 July 2014)
Kurds warn of genocide by IS in North-West Syria (19 Sep 2014)
Reuters reported Iraq's UN Ambassador Mohamed Ali Alhakim as saying “these terrorist groups have desecrated all human values.” “They have committed the most heinous criminal terrorist acts against the Iraqi people whether Shi'ite, Sunni, Christians, Turkmen, Shabak or Yazidis”.
"These are in fact crimes of genocide committed against humanity that must be held accountable before international justice," he further told the UN Security Council, adding “Iraq continues to require assistance to reconstruct liberated areas”.
Last year the People’s Protection Units (YPG) had warned of a genocide in the Kurdish enclave of Kobani in Syria, which was surrounded by Islamic State (IS) fighters at the time.
See our earlier posts:
ISIS to be investigated for war crimes in UN Commission of Inquiry on Syria (26 July 2014)
Kurds warn of genocide by IS in North-West Syria (19 Sep 2014)