John Kerry Needs ‘Additional Evaluation’ to Call
Islamic State Crimes ‘Genocide’
by Mary Chastain 26 Feb 2016
Secretary of State John
Kerry said this week he is seeking more evidence against the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) to label their crimes genocide.
“I will make a decision on it as soon as I have that
additional evaluation and we will proceed forward from there,” Kerry told
the House Appropriations Subcommittee on the Department of State and Foreign
Assistance.
Rep. Jeff Fortenberry (R-NE) 43% has sponsored
a resolution to declare Islamic State crimes as genocide. H. Con.
Res. 75 states:
Expressing the sense of Congress that those who commit or
support atrocities against Christians and other ethnic and religious
minorities, including Yezidis, Turkmen, Sabea-Mandeans, Kaka‘e, and Kurds, and
who target them specifically for ethnic or religious reasons, are committing,
and are hereby declared to be committing, “war crimes”, “crimes against
humanity”, and “genocide”.
Whereas those who commit or support atrocities against
Christians and other ethnic and religious minorities, including Yezidis, Turkmen,
Sabea-Mandeans, Kaka‘e, and Kurds, and who target them specifically for ethnic
or religious reasons, intend to exterminate or to force the migration or
submission of anyone who does not share their views concerning religion;
“None of us have ever seen anything like it in our
lifetimes,” Kerry admitted
about the crimes, which include beheadings and throwing gay people from
rooftops.
He also told the committee that his department reviews
“very carefully the legal standards and precedents” in order to call crimes
genocide.
The European Union recognized the mass
slaughter as genocide earlier this month. The Commission of the Bishops’
Conference of the European Union (COMECE) welcomed the
decision.
“COMECE welcomes today’s European Parliament’s resolution
as a significant step forward in facilitating measures to prevent the on-going
incipient genocide against Christians and other minorities,” the bishops declared
in a press release.
It is the
“first time the body has recognized an ongoing conflict as a genocide.” The
Parliament recommended that everyone “who intentionally commit[s] atrocities
for ethnic or religious reasons should be brought to justice for violations
against international law, crimes against humanity, and genocide.”
The Islamic State has slaughtered thousands of people as
they have expanded their caliphate across Syria and Iraq. People and
organizations have suggested calling their actions genocide, but as Christian
Today suggests, no
one took the final step, “with one fear being that it would oblige outside
bodies and agencies to take stronger action against the terror group.”
“It’s really important that the Parliament passed it, on
a political level and a moral level. The significance is the obligations that
follow by such a recognition,” explained
Lars Adaktusson, Swedish member of the parliament. “The collective obligation
to intervene, to stop these atrocities and to stop the persecution in the
ongoing discussion about the fight against the Islamic State.”
Last July, Pope Francis pleaded for the
world to finally call the slaughter of thousands of Christians a genocide.
“Today we are dismayed to see how in the Middle East and
elsewhere in the world many of our brothers and sisters are persecuted,
tortured and killed for their faith in Jesus,” he
insisted. “In this third world war, waged piecemeal, which we are
now experiencing, a form of genocide is taking place, and it must end.”
The United Nations toyed with the idea that the group “may have committed”
genocide and war crimes despite the overwhelming evidence.
Islamic State militants abducted 88
Eritrean Christians in Libya. They also beheaded 21 Coptic
Christians on a Libyan beach, when one of the terrorists promised the group
will conquer Rome. In July 2014, Andrew White, the vicar of the only Anglican church
in Iraq, told BBC Radio 4
that Christianity is coming to an end in the Middle Eastern country.
Charity group Barnabas Fund reported the group has
tortured and crucified thousands of Christians in Syria. The country has lost
over two-thirds of its Christian population since 2011, leaving them with
250,000. Militants attacked Assyrian
Christian towns in northern Syria where they burned churches and captured more
than 200 Christians. No one knows their fate. They even burned alive an
80-year-old Christian woman.
The militants have also beheaded, raped,
and forced many to
convert to Islam. They also sell the females into sex slavery.
“It’s overwhelming. Eighteen months ago we said we will
demand action,” said
Nuri Kino, director of A Demand
for Action. “Today, we can say with pride that we, a team of
volunteers from all over the world, worked around the clock to make this
happen. Now our goal is the U.N. Security Council. Action must be taken.”
Islamic State
(ISIS/ISIL)
Bashar al-Assad
permitted the rise of the Islamic State
of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS/ISIL) in Syria, is the president of Syria, and supporting the Syrian Electronic Army hacker group.
Note: Syrian
Electronic Army reportedly hacked the Human
Rights Watch.
Javier Solana is
a director at the Human Rights Watch,
and was a high representative for common foreign & security policy for the European Union.
Open
Society Foundations was a funder for the Human Rights Watch.
George
Soros is the founder & chairman for the Open Society Foundations, Jonathan
Soros’s father, was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open
Society, and a benefactor for the Human
Rights Watch.
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Human Rights Watch, the Roosevelt
Institute, 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.
Gara LaMarche was
an associate director for Human Rights
Watch, a VP & director of U.S. programs for the Open Society Foundations, a director at the White House Project, and is a director at the Roosevelt Institute.
Daisy
Khan was a director at the White
House Project, and is an executive director for the American Society for Muslim Advancement.
American
Society for Muslim Advancement is a sponsor for the Muslim Leaders of Tomorrow.
Jonathan Soros is
a senior fellow at the Roosevelt
Institute, a global board member of the Open Society Foundations, George
Soros’s son, and was the vice chairman for the for the Foundation to Promote Open Society.
Open
Society Foundations was a funder for the Human Rights Watch.
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Human Rights Watch, the Roosevelt
Institute, and the Brookings
Institution (think tank).
Donald F. McHenry
is a governor for the Roosevelt
Institute, and an honorary trustee
Brookings Institution (think tank).
Cameron F. Kerry
is a fellow at the Brookings Institution
(think tank), and John F. Kerry’s
brother.
Teresa Heinz
Kerry is an honorary trustee at the Brookings
Institution (think tank), and married to John F. Kerry.
John
F. Kerry is Cameron F. Kerry’s brother,
married to Teresa Heinz Kerry, and
the secretary at the U.S. Department of
State for the Barack Obama
administration.
Haim
Saban is an honorary trustee at the Brookings
Institution (think tank), a benefactor for the Saban Center for Middle East Policy, and a friend of Barry M. Meyer.
Barry M. Meyer is
a friend of Haim Saban, and a director
at the Human Rights Watch.
Joan R. Platt is
a director at the Human Rights Watch,
and was a director at the Genocide
Intervention Network.
Javier Solana is
a director at the Human Rights Watch,
and was a high representative for common foreign & security policy for the European Union.
Syrian
Electronic Army reportedly hacked the Human
Rights Watch.
Bashar al-Assad
is supporting Syrian Electronic Army
hacker group, the president of Syria,
and permitted the rise of the Islamic
State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS/ISIL) in Syria.
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