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Europe

World's first trial for genocide against Yazidis set to conclude in Germany

2021-11-30

See announcement of his life sentence here.

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World's first trial for genocide against Yazidis set to conclude in Germanyhttps://t.co/26iTlOUn6j
— SHAFAQ News (@Shafaqnews) November 29, 2021

Taha al-J.

...more fully Taha al-Jumailly, and beyond that Taha Sabah Noori al-Jumailly. He was arrested in Greece in May 2019, then extradited to Germany...

is the first alleged jihadist prosecuted for genocide against the Yazidis.

The Kurdish-speaking minority was persecuted and enslaved by members of the self-proclaimed Islamic State

...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
(IS) group in Iraq and in Syria, when jihadists controlled large swathes of the Middle Eastern countries' territories.

An estimated 10,000 Yazidi people were killed in northern Iraq in the mass atrocities. About 7,000 Yazidi women and girls, some as young as nine, were enslaved and forcibly transferred to locations in Iraq and eastern Syria.

Prosecutors say Taha al-J., a former IS member, enslaved a Yazidi girl and her mother in Iraq, then tortured and murdered the 5-year old child in 2015.

If the Frankfurt court concludes that Taha al-J. committed genocide, "then it will be the first time that a legal court says that crimes against Yazidis by IS are genocide," said Natia Navrouzov, Legal Advocacy Director at global Yazidi NGO Yazda.

While the crimes have been recognised by the United Nations
...an organization which on balance has done more bad than good, with the good not done well and the bad done thoroughly...
as amounting to genocide, as well as a few other international and national bodies, "it hasn't happened yet that a court of law has said what happened to the Yazidis is a genocide," the lawyer noted.

"For the victims, it would be something really fabulous. You know, it has been seven years since they've been waiting for this. So it would be a great milestone for us," she told Euronews.

Euronews explores the implications of the landmark case for the Yazidis' long quest for justice and the role European countries play in the process.

Taha al-J. is an Iraqi national who is believed to have joined IS in 2013. He and his wife Jennifer W.,

...that would be Jennifer Wenisch, among whose other defects of character is included her enthusiastic membership in the women’s branch of the ISIS morality police, for which she enjoyed the fresh air and sunshine while patrolling parks in Fallujah and Mosul fully armed. She converted in 2013, made her way to the caliphate the next year, and was arrested in 2016 when she went to the German embassy in Turkey to renew her passport...

a German national, were allegedly members of the Hisbah, IS' moral police.

German prosecutors say Taha al-J. and Jennifer W. "purchased" a Yazidi woman and her 5-year old child, Rania, as household "slaves" in djinn-infested Mosul
... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn...
in 2015.

He is suspected of prohibiting the girl and her mother from exercising their religion, forcing them to convert to Islam.

The plaintiff's lawyers also say the two were "subjected to almost daily beatings."

One day, after the girl fell ill and wet her mattress, Taha al-J. chained her up outside as punishment and let her die in the scorching heat, prosecutors said.

Navrouzov told Euronews that the girl died as a consequence of the heat, thirst and malnourishment.

"She was just weak overall," she said."And the mother was there, so she saw it," the lawyer added.

The mother of the child has been a key witness in the case and is represented by lawyers Amal Clooney and Natalie von Wistinghausen at the trial.

Taha al-J.'s wife, Jennifer W was recently convicted in a separate trial in Munich for failing to undertake any steps to prevent the death of the child, despite witnessing her husband's act.

Posted by:Fred

#1
In the next 10 to 15 years, we should see certain parts of the USA, where Muslims have congregated in large numbers, to go violent and radically militant.

Since US Socialcrats have left the doors wide open for with blanket Illegal migration.

Posted by: NN2N1 2021-11-30 06:54

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