International Criminal Court... where Milosevich died of old age before being convicted ...
(ICC) is pushing for a case to be opened into the "ongoing genocide" against Iraq's Yazidi community at the hands of Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling
Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) turbans.
Luis Moreno Ocampo said he was approached in the United States recently by Yazidi activists who are seeking justice for the systematic slaughter, rape and enslavement of thousands of members of the religious minority in northern Iraq.
"It's a very clear case. It's an ongoing genocide because there are still people in captivity," Ocampo told Rooters in an interview in Erbil, capital of Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region, late on Wednesday.
"It's up to us to provide information that allows the ICC to understand, yes, we have jurisdiction in this case in this way," said Ocampo, who launched many of the ICC's highest-profile cases, including against Saif al-Islam, son of former Libyan leader Muammar Qadaffy
...whose instability was an inspiration to dictators everywhere, but whose end couldn't possibly happen to them...
, and is now a professor at Harvard University. "It's difficult to predict who will be prosecuted because this is the beginning."