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Genocide! With Convincing Evidence, Investigators Nail ISIL on Atrocities against Iraqi Minority
Genocide! With Convincing Evidence, Investigators Nail ISIL on Atrocities against Iraqi Minority
Going by “clear and convincing evidence”, a United Nations team investigating Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant’s (ISIL) atrocities in Iraq has established a case of genocide against the Yazidi religious minority.
The UN Security Council has been adequately briefed on the investigation outcome.
In his final briefing to ambassadors, Karim Khan, Special Adviser and Head of the team, known as UNITAD, reported that investigators have reached a “landmark moment” in their work.
They have finalised initial case briefs on two key priorities: attacks against the Yazidi community in the Sinjar region in northern Iraq, and the mass killing of unarmed cadets and military personnel at Tikrit Air Academy in June 2014.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – With rubble from an asteroid tucked inside, a NASA spacecraft fired its engines and began the long journey back to Earth on Monday, leaving the ancient space rock in its rearview mirror.
The trip home for the robotic prospector, Osiris-Rex, will take two years.
Osiris-Rex reached asteroid Bennu in 2018 and spent two years flying near and around it before collecting rubble from the surface last fall. The University of Arizona s Dante Lauretta, the principal scientist, estimates the spacecraft holds between a half pound and 1 pound of mostly bite-size chunks. Either way, it easily exceeds the target payload size of at least 2 ounces.
UN experts: Islamic State committed genocide against Yazidis
by Edith M. Lederer, The Associated Press
Posted May 10, 2021 8:55 pm EDT
Last Updated May 10, 2021 at 8:58 pm EDT
CAMEROON, Cameroon The head of a U.N. team investigating atrocities in Iraq announced Monday it has found “clear and compelling evidence” that Islamic State extremists committed genocide against the Yazidi minority in 2014 and said the militant group successfully developed chemical weapons and used mustard gas.
Karem Khan told the Security Council the team also concluded war crimes were committed by the Islamic State group against predominantly Shiite unarmed cadets and personnel from the Tikrit Air Academy who were captured, tortured and subjected to mass execution in June 2014. He said an Islamic State video released in July 2015 showing the killings “constitutes a direct and public incitement to commit genocide against Shia Muslims.”