U.N. investigators eye 160 Islamic State militants over Yazidi massacres

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U.N. investigators eye 160 Islamic State militants over Yazidi massacres
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'Five years have passed and I can still hear my wife and my daughters screaming when the members of ISIL kidnapped them.' Via Reuters

UNITED NATIONS, Nov 26 - United Nations investigators have so far identified 160 Islamic State militants accused of massacres of Yazidis in northern Iraq in 2014 and are building legal cases against them, the head of the team told the U.N. Security Council on Tuesday.

U.N. experts warned in June 2016 that Islamic State was committing genocide against the Yazidis in Syria and Iraq to destroy the minority religious community through killings, sexual slavery and other crimes. Islamic State overran the Yazidi faith's heartland of Sinjar in northern Iraq in 2014, forcing young women into servitude as"wives" for its fighters and massacring men and older women.

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