Ms Clinton made this comment when she attended a campaign event in New Hampshire on Tuesday evening and was asked by a member of the audience, "Will you join those leaders, faith leaders and secular leaders and political leaders from both the right and the left, in calling what is happening by its proper name: Genocide?"
"I will because we now have enough evidence," Ms Clinton replied, adding that "What is happening is genocide, deliberately aimed at destroying not only the lives but wiping out the existence of Christians and other religious minorities in the Middle East in territory controlled by ISIS."
"I think I was asked this a couple months ago, and I said, you know, that term carries with it legal import. It is a very important concept and label for behavior that deserves that name," Clinton said. "I said we are only at the beginning at seeing this and I am not sure yet we have enough evidence. I am sure now we have enough evidence."