{"id":1604,"date":"2021-05-14T13:49:36","date_gmt":"2021-05-14T17:49:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ielrblog.com\/?p=1604"},"modified":"2021-05-14T13:49:36","modified_gmt":"2021-05-14T17:49:36","slug":"un-investigation-team-concludes-isil-crimes-against-iraqi-minority-the-yazidis-constitutes-genocide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ielrblog.com\/index.php\/2021\/05\/14\/un-investigation-team-concludes-isil-crimes-against-iraqi-minority-the-yazidis-constitutes-genocide\/","title":{"rendered":"UN Investigation Team Concludes ISIL Crimes Against Iraqi Minority, the Yazidis, Constitutes Genocide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On May 10, 2021, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unitad.un.org\/news\/special-adviser-khan-briefs-security-council-unitad-investigations\">the United Nations Investigative Team to Promote Accountability Against Da&#8217;esh\/ISIL (UNITAD)<\/a> found that the crimes committed by ISIL against the Yazidis, a religious minority in northern Iraq, constitutes genocide.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In a briefing to ambassadors, the head of UNITAD, Karim Khan, said there is \u201c there is clear and convincing evidence that the crimes against the Yazidi people clearly constituted genocide.\u201d Evidence showed that ISIL committed a range of inhuman acts, including extermination, rape, murder, torture, enslavement, persecution, and other war crimes against the Yazidis. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unitad.un.org\/sites\/www.unitad.un.org\/files\/general\/s.2021.419_-_sixth_unitad_report_en.pdf\">The crimes that ISIL committed<\/a> \u201cshocked the conscience of humanity,\u201d said Khan.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In 2014, The Islamic State terrorized the Yazidi community predominately residing in northern Iraq. ISIL abused young women and carried out massacres that left thousands dead and more than half a million displaced.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>UNITAD also investigated the mass execution in Tikrit Air Academy. The investigation team reviewed the video of footage and said the crime is a \u201cdirect and direct and public incitement to commit genocide against Shia Muslims.\u201d\u00a0 The horrifying video footage showed images of mass execution with a direct order to ISIL followers to \u201ckill them[shiates] wherever you find them.\u201d The attacks constitute war crimes of murder, torture, cruel treatment, and \u201coutrages upon person dignity,\u201d the investigation team reported.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Investigators are also looking into a chemical program at Mosul University laboratories that ISIL controlled in 2014. Evidence revealed that ISIL was testing a variety of lethal chemicals on prisoners that led to their death. In 2016, ISIL experimented with a sulfur mustard production system by firing rockets at a predominantly Shiite town.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The U.N. identified more than a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/middle-east\/un-investigator-says-evidence-genocide-against-yazidis-iraq-2021-05-10\/\">thousand suspected perpetrators<\/a> responsible for the crimes against the Yazidis. The Special Adviser said that more progress is to come as the prosecution of ISIL members for crimes committed in Iraq is to follow in the next year.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The current issue of the IELR will have a more comprehensive discussion of the report and its implications.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On May 10, 2021, the United Nations Investigative Team to Promote Accountability Against Da&#8217;esh\/ISIL (UNITAD) found that the crimes committed by ISIL against the Yazidis, a religious minority in northern Iraq, constitutes genocide. &nbsp; In a briefing to ambassadors, the head of UNITAD, Karim Khan, said there is \u201c there is clear and convincing evidence [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8,125],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1604","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-counterterrorism-and-international-human-rights","7":"category-counterterrorism-enforcement","8":"entry"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>UN Investigation Team Concludes ISIL Crimes Against Iraqi Minority, the Yazidis, Constitutes Genocide | IELR Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/ielrblog.com\/index.php\/2021\/05\/14\/un-investigation-team-concludes-isil-crimes-against-iraqi-minority-the-yazidis-constitutes-genocide\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"UN Investigation Team Concludes ISIL Crimes Against Iraqi Minority, the Yazidis, Constitutes Genocide | IELR Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"On May 10, 2021, the United Nations Investigative Team to Promote Accountability Against Da&#8217;esh\/ISIL (UNITAD) found that the crimes committed by ISIL against the Yazidis, a religious minority in northern Iraq, constitutes genocide. &nbsp; 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