WASHINGTON DC - Ten years after the Islamic State (ISIS) committed genocide, the United States government believes that justice for the Yezidi community is “incomplete.”
“There's much work that remains to be done” for Yezidis and other communities in the Kurdistan Region and Iraq that were affected by ISIS, US Ambassador-at-Large for Global Criminal Justice Beth Van Schaack told Rudaw in an interview on August 6.
Thousands of Yazidi families are still unable to return to their homes because of lack of reconstruction and ongoing insecurity, mass graves are still being discovered and exhumed, and 2,596 Yazidis abducted by ISIS in 2014 are still missing.
As the United Nations wraps up its investigation into ISIS crimes at the request of the Iraqi government, Van Schaack said “It's true that justice has been incomplete.”
