It is known that the ISIS members who participated in the Yazidi genocide of August 2014 had come from various countries.

The FIDH and Kinyat issued a statement and demanded that necessary steps be taken so gang members who participated in the genocide will be put on trial in the countries they are citizens of. The two institutions issued a joint report on the genocide and pointed out that genocidal attacks against Yazidis started after Mosul was taken over by gangs in June 2014.

THOUSANDS OF WOMEN AND CHILDREN ABDUCTED

The report said ISIS carried out an ethnic and religious cleansing in the region and added that Yazidi men were left to choose between converting to Islam and death. The report said Yazidi women and children were taken by the gangs, and that many Yazidi boys had been taken to Syria to be brainwashed into radical ideologies by the gangs.

The report also included that thousands of Yazidi women were abducted and sold as slaves, and stressed that everything that happened had happened in a programmatic way.

BAUDOUIN: THERE WERE GANG MEMBERS FROM 33 MOSTLY WESTERN COUNTRIES

Lawyer and Honorary Chair of FIDH Patrick Baudouin was among the people who announced the report and said the genocide was absolutely not individual or unrelated attacks.

Baudouin said the gang members who took part in the genocide must be put on trial, and called on countries the gang members are citizens of to launch the legal processes. Baudouin said the gang members who participated in “and profited from” the genocide came from 33 mostly Western countries.

The report prepared by FIDH and Kinyat included interviews with some of the thousands of women abducted by ISIS. Yazidi women said there were citizens of Saudi Arabia, Libya, Lebanon, Jordan, Yemen and Palestine among those involved with the slave trade, as well as German, French, American and even Chinese gang members.

2.500 YAZIDI WOMEN COULDN’T COME BACK

Bahzad Fahran, Chairperson of the NGO Kinyat, was among the people announcing the report and said 3.000 women who had been abducted from Shengal had been taken to Syria. Fahran said a total of 6.800 Yazidi women had been abducted, but only 4.300 managed to escape or were released on ransom.

NOT JUST TERRORISM, THEY SHOULD BE TRIED FOR GENOCIDE

The report by FIDH and Kinyat was announced in the meeting and the participants made an assessment that ISIS members who left from European countries have been tried on “terrorism” charges in case they returned.

FIDH and Kinyat administrators pointed out that it wouldn’t be enough to try these gang members on terrorism charges alone, and called for charges of genocide for participating members.

Lawyer Patrick Baudouin said European countries, starting with France, can’t dare face the public reaction so they drag their feet in demanding the extradition of ISIS members captured in Syria and Iraq and putting them on trial.

NADIA MURAD HAD BEEN GREETED IN ELYSEE

On the day the report was published, 2018 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Nadia Murad had been hosted in the Elysee Palace by French President Emmanuel Macron. The Elysee Palace released a statement after and argued that France is conscious to have the crimes against humanity committed in Syria and Iraq don’t go unpunished.

The statement was released in the name of President Macron, and announced that 100 Yazidi Kurdish women who fled ISIS and live in refugee camps in Southern Kurdistan still would be accepted into France.