Under Mounting
Pressure, Kerry Declares Islamic State Has Committed Genocide
by Edwin Mora 17 Mar 2016
WASHINGTON,
D.C. — Secretary of State John Kerry,
under mounting pressure, has determined that the Islamic
State (ISIS/ISIL/IS) has committed genocide
against Christians, Yazidis, Shiite groups, and other minorities in areas it
controls.
“The declaration, while long sought by Congress and human rights
groups, changes little,” notes The Associated Press (AP).
“It does not obligate the United States to take additional action against IS
militants and does not prejudge any prosecution against its members.”
Although his determination does not carry much weight,
the secretary of state noted that he hoped the groups he identified as victims
would take some comfort in the fact that the “the United States recognizes and
confirms the despicable nature of the crimes committed against them.”
Reps. Rep. Jeff Fortenberry (R-NE) 43% and Rep.
Anna Eshoo (D-CA) 12% introduced a non-binding resolution
earlier this week, condemning ISIS atrocities as genocide, that passed with
broad bipartisan support, by a 393-0 vote.
The resolution and others who have advocated for the
declaration put pressure on the Obama administration to acknowledged that the
atrocities perpetrated by ISIS against Christians and other minorities in Iraq
and Syria constitute
“genocide.”
Kerry told reporters on
Thursday:
My purpose in appearing before you today is to assert
that, in my judgment, Daesh [Arabic acronym for ISIS] is responsible for genocide
against groups in areas under its control, including Yezidis, Christians, and
Shiite Muslims.
Daesh is genocidal by self-proclamation, by ideology, and
by actions — in what it says, what it believes, and what it does. Daesh 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.
On Wednesday, the State Department disclosed that Kerry would
miss the congressionally mandated deadline of March 17 for the Obama
administration to determine whether ISIS perpetrated mass killings,
kidnappings, and rapes against Christians in the Middle East and the
destruction of their religious property amounts to “genocide.”
The deadline was imposed by the omnibus bill that
President Obama signed into law in December 2015.
Kerry noted on Thursday:
The fact is that Daesh kills Christians because they are Christians;
Yezidis because they are Yezidis; Shiite because they are Shiite. This is the
message it conveys to children under its control. Its entire worldview is based
on eliminating those who do not subscribe to its perverse ideology….
I want to be clear. I am neither judge, nor prosecutor,
nor jury with respect to the allegations of genocide, crimes against humanity,
and ethnic cleansing by specific persons. Ultimately, the full facts must be
brought to light by an independent investigation and through formal legal
determination made by a competent court or tribunal.
He vowed that the United States will do everything in its
power to see that ISIS is held accountable.
Islamic State
(ISIS/ISIL/IS)
Bashar al-Assad
permitted rise in Syria by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS/ISIL/IS), is the president of Syria, and support the Syrian
Electronic Army a hacker group.
Note: Syrian
Electronic Army reportedly
hacked the Human Rights Watch.
Open
Society Foundations was a funder for the Human Rights Watch.
George
Soros is the founder & chairman for the Open Society Foundations, was the chairman for the Foundation to
Promote Open Society, and a benefactor at the Human Rights Watch.
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Human Rights Watch, and the Brookings Institution (think tank).
Joan R. Platt is
a director at the Human Rights Watch,
and was a director at the Genocide
Intervention Network.
Cameron F. Kerry
is a fellow at the Brookings Institution (think tank), and John F. Kerry’s brother.
John
F. Kerry is Cameron F. Kerry’s brother,
the secretary at the U.S. Department of
State for the Barack Obama
administration, and married to Teresa
Heinz Kerry.
Teresa Heinz
Kerry is married to John F. Kerry,
an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), an emeritus
life trustee at the Carnegie Mellon
University, and a trustee emeritus at the Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh.
Andrew Carnegie
was the endowed predecessor schools for the Carnegie Mellon University, the founder of the Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh, the founder of the Carnegie Corporation of New York, and
the founder of the Carnegie Endowment
for International Peace (think tank).
Carnegie
Corporation of New York was a funder for the Brookings Institution (think
tank), the Carnegie Endowment for
International Peace (think tank), and the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think tank).
Jessica Tuchman Mathews was an honorary
trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), the president of the Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace (think tank), is a director at the
American Friends of Bilderberg (think tank), is a director at the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think tank),
and a 2008 Bilderberg conference participant (think tank).
Ed Griffin’s interview with Norman Dodd in 1982
(The investigation into the Carnegie Endowment for
International Peace uncovered the plans for population control by involving the
United States
in war)
Cyrus F. Freidheim
Jr. is an honorary trustee at the Brookings
Institution (think tank), and a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago.
Commercial Club of Chicago, Members Directory A-Z (Past Research)
Tuesday, December 17, 2013
R. Eden Martin is
the president of the Commercial Club of
Chicago, and counsel at Sidley
Austin LLP.
Newton N. Minow
is a member of the Commercial Club of
Chicago, and a senior counsel at Sidley
Austin LLP.
Michelle Obama
was a lawyer at Sidley Austin LLP.
Barack
Obama was an intern at Sidley Austin
LLP, a parishioner at the Trinity United Church of Christ (Chicago),
and is the president of the Barack Obama administration.
Trumpeter
Newsmagazine is a publication for the Trinity United Church of Christ
(Chicago).
Louis Farrakhan
was awarded 2007 Jeremiah Wright Jr. Trumpeter award from the Trumpeter Newsmagazine, and is the
acting head for the Nation of Islam (Muslim).
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