{"id":128873,"date":"2024-02-27T12:59:35","date_gmt":"2024-02-27T11:59:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/?p=128873"},"modified":"2024-02-27T13:03:21","modified_gmt":"2024-02-27T12:03:21","slug":"10-years-after-yazidi-genocide-what-justice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/128873-10-years-after-yazidi-genocide-what-justice.html","title":{"rendered":"10 years after the Yazidi genocide what justice?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In the early hours of August 3rd<\/sup> 2014 Islamic State militants launched a coordinated attack and forcibly took over the Sinjar region in northern Iraq, home to the Yazidi people. In the days and weeks that followed, approximately 12,000 Yazidis were killed or abducted by IS, according to the NGO organisation Yazda and the United Nations. Around 7,000 women and girls were kidnapped, enslaved, usually as sex slaves. Boys were forced to become child soldiers and it is thought 5,000, mostly men were massacred. An estimated further 250,000\u00a0people were displaced and forced to flee to Mount Sinjar, cut off from food, water and medical treatment for days before coalition forces found safe passage for them to Syria. It was genocide, concluded the UN, some twenty countries, as well as a German court<\/a>. Our partners at Asymmetrical Haircuts speak to Natia Navrouzov, a Yazidi from Georgia just appointed Executive Director at Yazda. They discuss the little accountability that has been possible in the past ten years, including through universal jurisdiction<\/a>; the impact and limited reach of UNITAD<\/a>, the UN body assisting Iraq\u2019s justice system to hold Islamic State accountable for their crimes; the uncertainty over the evidence it has gathered; the weak prospect of prosecuting international crimes in Iraq; as well as the challenges faced by Yazidi returnees. Ten years after the crime symbolic recognition seems to have overshadowed justice.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

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