Yezidi, Republican MP Rustam Makhmudyan will submit a bill recognizing and condemning the Yezidis genocide in autumn. The MP announced about this at the press conference.
What was done on August 3, 2014, was a classic genocide against the Yezidis in Northern Iraq. Yet three years ago the “Islamic State” terrorist group, which had already initiated the crime, had warned all Christians to leave the territory of Iraq. But calling the Yezidis non-Christian, pagan nation, qualifying them as unbelievers, the Islamic State intended to destroy the Yezidis”.
Let’s remind that on August 3, 2014, as a result of the crime committed against the Yezidis by the Islamic State group in the north of Iraq about 300 thousand Yezidis became refugees, 4000 women are still in slavery. There are no precise data about victims.
“We now have Yezidi mothers, sisters who are still in captivity, 4000 women are still in slavery. There are no clear data on the number of victims, because there might be Yezidis living in the mountains now, but they are included in the number of unknown victims. I can say for sure that more than 3,000 were killed only in Sinjar”, he said.
According to Rustam Makhmudyan, the crime committed against the Yezidis is a result of not condemning the genocide committed against the Armenian people 100 years ago.
The speaker also touching upon the international references said that the UN, perhaps not indirectly, viewed the crime committed against Yezidis as genocide: “The former US president condemned what happened to the Yezidis, expressing his readiness to support the Yezidis. Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan said at the UN High Tribune that what happened to the Yezidis is nothing else than a genocide. Regardless of all, the provisions of the UN Convention already provide the answer to the question, whether this was a genocide or not”.
Nelly GRIGORYAN
