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| 2016-03-17 | |
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] US Secretary of State John F. I was in Vietnam, you knowKerry Former Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, self-defined war hero, speaker of French, owner of a lucky hat,conqueror of Cambodia, and current Secretary of State... will miss a deadline imposed by Congress to rule on whether the ISIS group’s murders of Christians in Syria and Iraq amount to genocide. Lawmakers set Thursday as the day on which the State Department would have to confirm whether the US government regards the brutal ISIS persecution of religious minorities as a crime against humanity. But department front man Mark Toner said Wednesday that Kerry was still gathering evidence before making his determination and would miss the deadline -- an admission sure to trigger anger on Capitol Hill. "Given the scope and the breadth of the analysis he’s contemplating, he will not have a final decision completed by the Congressionally-mandated deadline tomorrow," Toner said. "However, nothing needs reforming like other people's bad habits... this issue is clearly of the utmost importance to him as well as to Congress, and we expect him to reach a decision very soon." The ISIS group’s vicious treatment of Christians and other non-Muslim religious minorities such as Yazidis -- including wholesale killing and rape -- is not disputed in Washington. But the US administration argues that to designate the ISIS campaign as genocide would have practical legal implications and cannot be taken lightly. This did not satisfy the House of Representatives, which has voted to classify the killings as genocide and demand that the administration do so, too. "What more does Secretary John Kerry need to see and hear in order to call these atrocities for what they are?" House speaker Paul Ryan ...U.S. Representative for Wisconsin's 1st congressional district, serving since 1999. He is a member of the Republican Party. He proposed an alternative to President Obama's 2011 budget and made himself the target of both Democrat and Republican verbal pies... said. "This is genocide, plain and simple. The House has spoken very clearly on this. And we all continue to pray for the persecuted." Toner insisted that the State Department respects the right of Congress to demand a decision, but argued "we need some additional time, a matter of a few days or a week or so in order to reach what we believe is a more fact-based, evidence-based decision."
US Secretary of State John Kerry determines that the Islamic State group is committing genocide against Christians and other minorities in Iraq and Syria, as he acted to meet a congressional deadline. Kerry’s finding does not obligate the United States to take additional action against IS and does not prejudge any prosecution against its members. A day after the State Department said Kerry would miss the deadline, Kerry says he had completed his review and determined that Christians, Yazidis and Shiite groups are victims of genocide and crimes against humanity by IS militants. The House earlier this week passed a nonbinding resolution by a 393-0 vote condemning IS atrocities as genocide. “In my judgment Daesh is responsible for genocide against groups in territory under its control,” Kerry said, using the Arabic acronym for the Islamic State group. He outlines a litany of atrocities that he said the militants had committed against people and religious sites, as well as threats. “Daesh is genocidal by self-acclimation, by ideology and by practice.” | |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 Al Arabiya got it off an AFP Washington news feed; it's likely that it's AyPee-generated. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2016-03-17 13:22 |
| #1 "...This did not satisfy the House of Representatives, which has voted to classify the killings as genocide and demand that the administration do so, too...." Actually the vote in the House was unanimous (393-0) which is pretty rare. Al Arabiya seems to have missed the significance of this. |
| Posted by: lord garth 2016-03-17 01:01 |