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Kurdish prime minister vows to work towards international recognition of Yezidi genocide

The mass crimes against the Yezidis in Shingal last year by Islamic State militants can only be described as ‘genocide,’ said the Kurdish Prime Minister Nechirvan Barzani.

Vowing to secure international recognition for atrocities committed against the Yezidi people, Barzani said,

“We have already formed a governmental committee which consists of two minsters and a number of eyewitnesses, who will do whatever is in their power to formally recognise the atrocities in Shingal as genocide.”

The Yezidis who were placed under siege by Islamic State militants were eventually rescued by Kurdish Peshmerga forces supported by US led airstrikes.

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