The barbarous treatment of Iraq and Syria’s devout minorities should be called what it is. Our relationship with Turkey shouldn’t even come into itSawsan is a middle-aged Syrian woman from al-Hammidiya,which is just north of the Lebanese border. She describes how her nephew was crucified to death and a video of his crucifixion was assign on the internet. He was crucified for wearing a cross. From the same town, Amin described how local girls were taken as sex slaves. Isis returned their body parts to the front door of their parents’ houses with a video tape of them being raped. Alice speaks of how hundreds of children were killed and their bodies ground down in the local baker’s shop in Doma.
These are some of the stories that are going to be told tonight at a meeting in Westminster, or ahead of tomorrow’s vote in the House of Commons,when MPs will confirm or deny the recognition: “That this house believes that Christians, Yazidis, and other ethnic and devout minorities in Iraq and Syria are suffering genocide at the hands of Daesh; and calls upon Her Majesty’s government to make an instant referral to the United Nations security council with a view to conferring jurisdiction upon the international criminal court so that perpetrators can be brought to justice.”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com