Sunday, February 28, 2016

John Kerry Needs ‘Additional Evaluation’ to Call Islamic State Crimes ‘Genocide’



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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