USA IS accuse of genocide of Christians, Yezidi and Shiites – Gazeta Wyborcza

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US Secretary of State John Kerry announced on Thursday that the Washington committed by jihadists of the Islamic State (IS) massacre of Christians, Yezidi and Shiites in Iraq and Syria are "genocide".

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
                          
 

                 

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

         

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This assessment does not obligate the United States to take additional measures against the militants IS and without prejudice to the prosecution of members of the terrorist organization - says the agency AP.

"In my opinion Daesz (Arabic acronym for the Islamic State - PAP) is responsible for the genocide groups in the territory under their (jihadists - PAP) control" - said Kerry. He mentioned a whole list of savage actions that the US administration is committed jihadists.

"Islamic State itself admits that makes genocide and its ideology and actions confirm these facts" - said Kerry. He assured that the United States will do everything possible to pull the fighters IS responsible for these acts.

"To call these crimes by name is important, but the key is stopping them," - he added the head of American diplomacy.

He stressed that "neither the judge nor the prosecutor," and declared that any criminal charges against the extremists must be the result of an independent international inquiry. Kerry said that the US will continue to support efforts to collect evidence of these crimes and their documentation.

Kerry expressed the hope that the groups that are victims of Washington's IS, you will find some solace in the fact that "the United States recognizes and confirms the evil nature of the crimes committed against them."

The US administration only the second time declares that during the ongoing conflict comes to genocide. For the first time become so in 2004, when the then Secretary of State Colin Powell acknowledged that the bestial action in Darfur constitute genocide. Powell came to this conclusion as a result of intense lobbying by human rights organizations, and only then, when lawyers from the State Department - contrary to earlier opinions, - assured him that it does not oblige the United States to actions to stop the genocide.

The lawyers agreed that the UN Convention of 1948 on the prevention of genocide and punish it does not oblige countries to prevent this crime, if it comes to it outside of their territory. Powell urged the UN Security Council to set up a committee that was to investigate this crime and take legal action if it considers that in Darfur is genocide.

Kerry made its decision, as to similar conclusions were reached by his lawyers.

Although the US show an international coalition that attacks from the air targets IS, and although Washington has helped prevent some ethnic cleansing, mainly directed against the Yezidi, some lawyers are tasks that the latest decision of the State Department would require additional measures the US.

In a recent report, organizations, Knights of Columbus and In Defense of Christians (IDC) exchanged names of more than 1.1 thousand. Christians killed by IS. The report describes in detail numerous cases of kidnappings, rapes, selling people as slaves or expelling them from their homes. (PAP)

         

         

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