The European Union has done it - they passed a resolution last Thursday calling the atrocities of Islamic State genocide.
Their resolution is based on the 1948 UN definition of genocide as "acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole
or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group."
Atrocities which the European Union says qualify under this definition include the killing of thousands, the enslavement and trafficking of women and children, the raping, the forcing of children into armies, the kidnappings:
"[P]ersecution, atrocities and international crimes amount to warcrimes and crimes against humanity; . . the so-called „ISIS/Daesh‟ is committing genocide against Christians and Yazidis, and other religious and ethnic minorities . . "
The resolution goes further to say that these people have a right to live in their "traditional and historic homeland . . "
For individual stories of IS crimes, click on the labels "Iraq," "Syria," "IS."
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