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| Kerry: ISIS Is Committing Genocide Against Yazidis, Christians and Shiite Muslims |
| 2016-03-18 |
[NBCNEWS] 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... said Thursday that ISIS has been committing genocide against religious minorities in the Middle East -- just the second time the executive branch has used the term in relation to an ongoing conflict. The formal designation comes days after the House passed a nonbinding resolution by a 393-0 vote condemning ISIS atrocities as genocide. "Daesh [Islamic State] is genocidal by self proclamation, by ideology and by actions," Kerry said in a televised address, using another name for the Sunni murderous Moslem group. "We must recognize what Daesh [Islamic State] is doing to its victims." "Naming these crimes is important but what is essential is to stop them," he added. He enumerated a list of atrocities against Shiite Muslims, Christians and Yazidis at the hands of the Sunni faceless myrmidons that led to the designation. "Daesh [Islamic State] is also responsible for crimes against humanity and ethnic cleansing directed at these same groups and in some cases also against Sunni Muslims, Kurds, and other minorities," Kerry said, noting that it was impossible to know the full scale of the Death Eaters' atrocities. Kerry took care to highlight the plight of the Yazidis, a Kurdish minority ISIS branded as devil worshipers and who have been killed and starved by the thousands. Many were saved with the help of the U.S. but "not before Daesh [Islamic State] captured and enslaved thousands of Yazidi women and girls, selling them at auction, raping them at will, and destroying the communities in which they had lived for countless generations," the secretary of state said. Kerry also gave examples of Shiites and Christians being slaughtered, forced to flee their homes and compelled to convert to ISIS' extreme version of Sunni Islam. Christian groups had heaped pressure on politicians to ensure ISIS actions against members of the religion were included in any consideration of genocide. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 Gee, and who's fault is that? |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2016-03-18 09:05 |
| #1 Nothing gets by Kerry. |
| Posted by: gorb 2016-03-18 01:03 |