UN Calls for ISIS International Court Over Genocide Trial,. UN Human Rights Council on militants ISIS states have committed the crime of genocide against Iraq's Yazidi minority. The UN also called for ISIS taken to the International Criminal Court (ICC) for trial.
UN report is based on interviews with more than 100 victims and witnesses of atrocities ISIS, called on the UN Security Council to bring the case to the ICC to ISIS legally prosecuted. Similarly, as reported by Reuters on Thursday (03/19/2015).
The report also mentioned, the Iraqi government troops and militias associated may have done some war crimes while fighting the ISIS in the region.
UN Human Rights Council began investigating the vicious ISIS gait since last September 2014. Although ISIS also mastered several regions of Syria, the UN Human Rights Council investigation focus is in the area of Iraq.
The report says the UN Human Rights Council has found the information that refers to the practice of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes committed in Iraq ISIS. UN Human Rights Council also called on the UN Security Council to consider bringing the case to the ICC.
According to the report, there is a clear pattern of attacks carried out against ethnic ISIS Yazidi and Christian minorities, as well as other minorities in Iraq.
UN investigators also cited allegations about the use of chlorine gas by ISIS against Iraqi troops in Anbar Province in September 2014 and then. Not only that, it states that women and children were taken hostage treated as 'goods of war' and are often victims of rape and sexual slavery.
The UN report also mentions the application of Islamic law courts by ISIS in Mosul, which gives harsh punishments such as stoning and amputation of body parts.
"A total of 13 male teenager sentenced to death for watching a football match," the report said.
Finally, UN investigators suspect that the Iraqi government troops using barrel bombs, which are prohibited by international law, in the battle against ISIS. But this, according to the UN, still need to be investigated further.
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