Syria - The Middle East - IS - War crimes and genocide

Syria, Middle East, IS

"Israel is the only Mideast country not persecuting Christians"

"report, based on over 300 interviews with witnesses and victims, called on world powers to bring the commanders before the International Criminal Court for both war crimes and crimes against humanity. --- "ISIS has beheaded, shot and stoned men, women and children in public spaces in towns and villages across northeastern Syria," the report said." (The Jerusalem Post)







Dagen: Rädsla för islamofobi får inte hindra analys -IS är ett allvarligt hot mot den civiliserade världen:
http://www.dagen.se/ledare/r%C3%A4dsla-f%C3%B6r-islamofobi-f%C3%A5r-inte-hindra-analys-1.298871
"den syrisk-ortodoxa biskopen, Mor Nicadamus Dawud Sharaf från Mosul: Det är första gången på 1  500 år som vi inte kan högtidlighålla S:ta Shimuni i just den kyrkan som är byggd till minne av henne.” Kyrkan han talar om finns i det område som är tömt på kristna, Nineve­slätten i norra Irak."


The Jerusalem Post: "UN: ISIS fighters are hiding among civilians; war crimes committed on 'massive scale' :
http://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/UN-ISIS-fighters-are-hiding-among-civilians-war-crimes-committed-on-massive-scale-381837
"report, based on over 300 interviews with witnesses and victims, called on world powers to bring the commanders before the International Criminal Court for both war crimes and crimes against humanity. --- "ISIS has beheaded, shot and stoned men, women and children in public spaces in towns and villages across northeastern Syria," the report said."

Children were being pressed to inform on their parents, women stoned for unapproved contact with men, and Christians, Kurds and other minorities forced to convert to Islam or pay a tax: "Witnesses saw scenes of still-bleeding bodies hanging from crosses, and of heads placed on spikes along park railings."


The Washington Post: Refuge-  "The voices": 18 stories from the Syrian exodus
http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/syrian-refugees/story/refuge/
Very moving stories.



Israelvideonetwork: The most powerful speech ever: Fader Gabriel Naddaf
http://www.israelvideonetwork.com/the-most-powerful-words-ever-delivered-in-arabic-in-the-un-human-rights-council
Christian priest tells UN: "Israel is the only Mideast country not persecuting Christians"




The Jerusalem Post: An open letter to Mahmoud Abbas: War crimes and genocide:
http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/An-open-letter-to-Mahmoud-Abbas-378101?fb_action_ids=10204113289127968&fb_action_types=og.shares&fb_source=other_multiline&action_object_map=[710635939022077]&action_type_map=[%22og.shares%22]&action_ref_map=[] "War crimes, Mr. president, are what happens in Syria, where their president is killing his own people (adults, women and children), using conventional and chemical weapons.

War crimes, Mr. Abbas, is Islamic State butchering Syrian Kurds in Syria and Shi’ite civilians in Iraq. Brutal massacres, the cowardly shooting and beheading of restrained people.

War crimes, Mr. Abbas, are also what happened in Algeria more than a decade ago when Islamist killed in cold blood thousands of people for no good reason.

War crimes, Mr. Abbas, are also what happened in Darfur, Sudan, Yemen, Nigeria and Somali.

These are war crimes, Mr. Palestinian President. Now, genocide, Mr. Abbas, is a monstrous and catastrophic event, far more exceptional.

Genocide, Mr. Abbas, is what the Khmer Rouge committed in Cambodia, using systematic starvation to kill millions of people.

Genocide, Mr. Abbas, is what Stalin committed in Ukraine, causing the deaths of three million Ukrainians.

Genocide, Mr. Abbas, was committed against the Armenian people by the Ottoman Empire in the past century.

Genocide, Mr. Abbas, was committed in East Timor, Rwanda, Darfur and against the Toto tribe in Burundi.

And the quintessential example of genocide, Mr. Abbas, is what the Nazis and their collaborators did to the Jewish people during WWII. The Holocaust.

Six million people, including more than a million children, were killed in an organized manner just because of their religion. It was a death industry.

Just because of their origin, babies were torn from their mother’s arms and their skulls crushed against the ground. Children and women were shot in the back standing on the edge of a pit dug by themselves. Millions of Jews were exterminated in gas chambers.

Genocide, Mr. Abbas, is what was done to my three cousins, Abraham, Jacob and Mordechai, who were between the ages of six and 12. Who were forced, together with their mother, Sarah, into the gas chambers at Birkenau. Who slowly suffocated. Who tried to scratch their way out through a concrete wall with their little fingernails, and who breathed their last with the question “why” on their innocent faces."



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