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| Iraq Must Ask For UN Inquiry Agains |
| Iraq Must Ask For UN Inquiry Against ISIS Yazidi Crimes, Says Amal Clooney
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| UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
, 10-March-2017
4:0:56 AM |
| International human rights lawyer Amal Clooney and a young Yazidi woman who was enslaved and raped by ISIS pushed Iraq on Thursday to allow a United Nations investigation into crimes by the terror group.
Britain is drafting a United Nations Security Council resolution to establish a UN investigation, but Ms Clooney said the Iraqi government needs to send a letter formally requesting the inquiry before the 15-member council can vote.
ISIS is committing genocide against the Yazidis in Syria and Iraq to destroy the minority religious community through killings, sexual slavery and other crimes, UN experts reported in June last year.
Ms Clooney, who represents Nadia Murad and other Yazidi victims of ISIS, said that despite public support by Iraq for a UN investigation, the government has not yet made a request.
'We do want to see an investigation take place with the cooperation of the Iraqi authorities,' Ms Clooney told Reuters in an interview after speaking at a United Nations event on
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