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Basnews English 27/07/2017 - 14:26 Published in Kurdistan
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ERBIL — The International Criminal Curt (ICC) has for the fourth time been given the case of Kurdish Yezidis massacre at the hands of Islamic State (IS), but it could not process the file as Iraq is not a member state.

Haso Hormi, chairman of Yezidis’ Foundation in the Netherlands, told BasNews that since Iraq is not an ICC member state, the court must deploy a special fact-finding delegation to the Yezidi areas in order to research the case before recognising it as genocide.

He however blamed the Iraqi federal government for that as well since inviting and allowing the ICC delegation is also Baghdad’s responsibility and within its jurisdiction only.

On 3rd August 2014 after seizing control of Mosul in northern Iraq, the Islamic State (IS) militants overrun the Yezidi town of Sinjar and its neighbouring districts, killing a huge number of civilians from the religious community.

They also kidnapped over 6,000 Yezidi women and children; the destination of thousands of them remains obscure up to the moment.

The Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) has been attempting to collect evidences and document the remnants of the massacre in hopes of finding a way to internationally recognise it as a genocide against its religious minority.


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