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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Patrick Wintour Diplomatic editor

Turkey should face international court over Yazidi genocide, report says

Displaced Yazidis in May at a camp in the north of Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region.
Displaced Yazidis in May at a camp in the north of Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region. Photograph: Safin Hamed/AFP/Getty Images

Turkey should face charges in front of the international court of justice for being complicit in acts of genocide against the Yazidi people, while Syria and Iraq failed in their duty to prevent the killings, an investigation endorsed by British human rights lawyer Helena Kennedy has said.

The groundbreaking report, compiled by a group of prominent human rights lawyers, is seeking to highlight the binding responsibility states have to prevent genocide on their territories, even if they are carried out by a third party such as Islamic State (IS).

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