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The Iraqi government does not view the Yazidi case as genocide and is not cooperating to establish a special court for this case.
Ten years have passed since the Yazidi genocide by ISIS, and the fate of more than 2,000 abductees remains unknown, with dozens of mass graves still unopened.
Haso Hormi, President of the International Yazidi Organization for Combating Genocide, told Sama: The Iraqi government does not want to establish a special court for the Yazidi genocide case because many documents would be revealed and many people would be prosecuted. Therefore, Baghdad is not serious about this case and fundamentally does not view it as genocide.
The President of the Yazidi Organization says: “The Kurdistan Regional Government is very cooperative regarding the Yazidi genocide. For the first time, a delegation of judges from Paris visited the region to see witnesses and documents of the Yazidi genocide in Sinjar, but unfortunately, the Iraqi government is not cooperating as needed.”
He revealed: “The Iraqi government deals with genocide perpetrators under Article Four of the terrorism law, and this is not good what Iraq is doing.”
On August 3, 2014, the terrorist organization ISIS seized control of Sinjar in a brutal manner, without distinction of age or gender and without consideration for humanitarian standards. They genocided thousands of young people and elderly, kidnapped thousands of Yazidi women and girls, and destroyed religious sites and places.