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The Commission of Inquiry on Syria issued its first report Thursday specifically looking at IS crimes against Yazidis after the extremist group's attack on unarmed Yazidi communities in northwestern Iraq in August 2014. Many Yazidis were taken into Syria, and over 3,200 Yazidi women and children are still captive, the report said. The 41-page report, based on 45 interviews with survivors, religious leaders, activists, medical staffers and others, seeks to put allegations of rape, sexual slavery and other crimes in a wider context of crimes against humanity and genocide by alleging that such practices are part of a IS strategy to wipe out the Yazidis, whom the radicals see as infidels. "ISIS' abuse of Yazidi men, women and children amounts to genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes," commission chair Paulo Pinheiro told reporters in Geneva. IS statements and conduct show the group "intended to destroy the Yazidis of Sinjar in whole or in part," he said, and "the genocide is ongoing."
Such official claims of genocide against a non-state actor are rare, if not unprecedented. Genocide has traditionally been associated with state-sponsored mass killings like in the Holocaust or in massacres in Rwanda, but the report says that the term fits when intent exists "in the perpetrator's mind" that the crimes can destroy a group partly or entirely. The U.N. estimates that some 5,000 Yazidi men were killed by IS militants when they took control of Iraq's northwest two years ago and thousands more people, mostly women and children, were taken into captivity. Most of the Yazidi population - some 400,000 people - was displaced.
While countries like the United States, at a political level, have alleged IS genocide against Yazidis, the report seeks to bolster a possible legal case against those responsible and encourage the U.N. Security Council to hand the matter to the International Criminal Court or a separate ad hoc tribunal. "We regard this as a road map for prosecution," said commission member Carla Del Ponte. "It is time now to start to obtain justice for the victims." The U.N. Security Council should "consider engaging its Chapter 7 powers" - which could authorize the use of force, the report said. In New York, French ambassador to the U.N. Francois Delattre, whose country currently holds the rotating Security Council presidency, said: "This very important report clearly shows the systematic barbarity of the terrorist group, and I'm sure that, yes, we'll discuss this in the Security Council."
UN Watch, a non-governmental group, praised the report but said the matter should be brought up before the U.N.'s Human Rights Council currently in session in Geneva, saying that it should adopt a resolution that supports the finding of genocide against IS and then send its findings to the Security Council. "Unless these minimal steps are taken, the experts' finding risks being just more words on paper, without protecting a single Yazidi man, woman, or child," UN Watch executive director Hillel Neuer said in a statement.
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