UN: ISIL committing genocide against Yazidis

Fighters from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, also known as ISIS) are committing genocide against the Yazidi community in Iraq and Syria, UN human rights investigators have said. More than 3,200 Yazidi women and children are held mostly in Syria by the fighters who keep them as sexual slaves, the UN […]

Fighters from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, also known as ISIS) are committing genocide against the Yazidi community in Iraq and Syria, UN human rights investigators have said.
More than 3,200 Yazidi women and children are held mostly in Syria by the fighters who keep them as sexual slaves, the UN Commission of Inquiry on Syria said in a report on Thursday.
“Genocide has occurred and is ongoing,” commission chairman Paulo Pinheiro said in Geneva.
“ISIS has subjected every Yazidi woman, child or man that it has captured to the most horrific of atrocities,” he added.
According to the UN report, ISIL fighters exterminated Yazidis in mass killings when fighters based in Iraq and Syria attacked the Iraqi region of Sinjar in August 2014.