A brave Yazidi woman speaking up about the horrors suffered.
IS Victim Appeals for International Justice
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Margaret Besheer
December 16, 2015 9:00 PM
UNITED NATIONS—
A young Yazidi woman, who was held captive and abused by self-proclaimed Islamic State fighters in Iraq, has appealed to the international community to refer the terror group's crimes to the International Criminal Court.
Accusing IS of carrying out "collective genocide" on the Yazidi religious minority, Nadia Murad Basee Taha, 21, told the U.N. Security Council on Wednesday that "there were murders, collective slavery — and that needs to be qualified as genocide.
"I hope you can convey this — the case of genocide — to the International Court," she said in an emotional but firm appeal to the 15-nation council at a special session on the trafficking of persons by IS.
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IS Victim Appeals for International Justice?
IS Victim Appeals for International Justice
rsionMargaret Besheer
December 16, 2015 9:00 PM
UNITED NATIONS—
A young Yazidi woman, who was held captive and abused by self-proclaimed Islamic State fighters in Iraq, has appealed to the international community to refer the terror group's crimes to the International Criminal Court.
Accusing IS of carrying out "collective genocide" on the Yazidi religious minority, Nadia Murad Basee Taha, 21, told the U.N. Security Council on Wednesday that "there were murders, collective slavery — and that needs to be qualified as genocide.
"I hope you can convey this — the case of genocide — to the International Court," she said in an emotional but firm appeal to the 15-nation council at a special session on the trafficking of persons by IS.
Continue reading at:
IS Victim Appeals for International Justice?
