United Nations 32nd Human Rights session’s agenda yesterday was the situation in Syria and Iraq. UN Chair of Commission of Inquiry (COI) on Syria Paulo Sergio Pinheiro took the stand and read the 41 page long report he had prepared regarding the Êzîdî Kurds that had passed the UN Council of Human Rights and is the first report on the attacks on the Êzîdîs. Noting that ISIS implemented a genocide towards Êzîdîs in Syria and Iraq and committed various war crimes, Pinheiro said 400 thousand Êzîdîs were killed, enslaved or subjected to other crimes.

Pinheiro pointed out that the genocide was still in motion and mentioning the International Criminal Court’s decree on the matter, said 3200 Êzîdî women and children were still in ISIS’ hands. Pinheiro emphasized the UN’s 1948 Article 2 on genocide crimes and said the massacres against the Êzîdîs constituted a genocide according to this article.

YPG SAVED THOUSANDS OF ÊZÎDÎS

Pinheiro called for an initiative to save the captive Êzîdîs from ISIS and emphasized that the KDP peshmerges had left the area when the attacks on Shengal had started and that the People’s Protection Units (YPG) had come to the region to open a corridor to save thousands of people.

TURKEY SILENT ON ATROCITIES OF ISIS

Other state representatives and NGO spokespeople took the stand to demand the massacre of Êzîdîs be recognized as a genocide, while Sudan, United Arab Emirates and Turkey didn’t mention the massacre at all.

In his speech, UN Turkey Representative Mehmet Ferdan Çarıkçı didn’t mention the massacres of ISIS at all, and claimed that PYD and YPG had committed crimes against humanity and that all the destruction in Syria had been brought on by the regime.

SYRIA: ERDOĞAN’S REGIME SUPPORTS TERRORISTS

In his speech, UN Syria Representative Hussam Edin A’ala said “the Erdoğan regime” supported terrorist groups.

GENOCIDE COMMITTED AGAINST THE ÊZÎDÎS

Taking the stand in the name of United Nations Watch, Saeed Valan Dakheel said she was an Êzîdî woman, and that her people had suffered the crime of genocide and it should be recognized as such. Dakheel said thousands of Êzîdîs were massacred and thousands more were sold off as slaves. Dakheel pointed out that the massacre on the Êzîdîs still continued and ISIS still had hundreds of Êzîdî women enslaved.

Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Syrian Arab Republic member Carla Del Ponte said they had visited the region as special research into the genocide and they had gathered enough evidence that the Êzîdîs were subjected to a genocide.