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She wore a scarf in our first interview because she did not want you to know her. She was a humble 21-year-old from a poor farm family. Her dream was to own a hair salon in her village of nearly 2,000 but, that was before the massacre. She didn’t want to be on “60 Minutes.” But she needed the world to know what ISIS did. The murder, the rape, the genocide of her people. Five years ago, in Iraq, we discovered this hesitant, frightened, woman. We did not imagine her scarf concealed not only her identity but also a fierce invincibility which would lead her, four years after our interview, to the highest honor the world has to give.

Full article: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/nobel-peace-prize-recipient-nadia-murad-and-amal-clooney-vow-to-take-isis-to-court-60-minutes-2019-10-13

Donald Trump’s advisers offered him several options aimed at fulfilling his desire to pull back U.S. troops in Syria without allowing Turkey to commence its incursion. One tactic on the table: threatening to recognize the deaths of millions of Armenians and members of other ethnic minorities under the Ottoman Empire as a genocide, a National Security Council official told Newsweek.

Whether or not the deaths of up to a million and a half Armenians and hundreds of thousands of Greeks and Assyrians in 1915-1923 should be termed a “genocide” is a controversial topic in international relations. Turkey, the modern-day successor to the Ottoman Empire, rejects that these events constituted a systematic campaign to slaughter ethnic minorities, but more than 30 countries and governments have gone on the record to say it does.

Full article: https://www.newsweek.com/trump-option-armenian-genocide-pressure-turkey-1466115

“Genocide is a process. The Holocaust did not start with the gas chambers. It started with hate speech” said Adama Dieng, UN Secretary-General’s Special Adviser for the Prevention of Genocide. Mr Dieng was speaking at the UN remembering the Rwandan genocide when he made this statement. His words reflect a fundamental truth about genocide and how it operates. Yet it does not necessarily help us to prevent genocide. Again and again, we miss the red flags and genocide continues to occur. This is very clearly seen from an analysis of the genocide perpetrated by Daesh.

In early 2014, Daesh unleashed a genocidal campaign against religious minorities. Its goal was to eliminate religious pluralism from the Middle East (with a particular emphasis on Iraq and Syria) and to establish a purely Islamic state (in accordance with Daesh’s perverted interpretation of what it would involve). Daesh brought about this genocide by way of mass murder, torture, abuse, slavery, rape and sexual abuse, forced displacement, and much more.

Name a crime, Daesh has been perpetrating it.

Full article: https://www.forbes.com/sites/ewelinaochab/2019/06/10/we-are-not-equipped-to-prevent-genocide/#cc41d4845e81