Britain Formally Recognizes Yazidi Genocide by IS
3rd August 2023
In 2014, the Islamic State (IS) terrorist group ruled much of Iraq and Syria and carried out a wave of oppression toward various minority groups, committing acts of genocide against the Yazidis (a Kurdish-speaking ethnoreligious group), a fact now finally being acknowledged by the British government.
This week, the UK Foreign Office announced it would recognize that the Islamic State carried out acts of genocide against the Yazidis in 2014, with the group being largely targetted by the Islamic extremist group because of their non-Islamic beliefs.
“The UK has today formally acknowledged that acts of genocide were committed against the Yazidi people by Daesh (the Arabic acronym for the Islamic State) in 2014,” the Foreign Office said in a statement on Tuesday, August 1st.
Wherever you go,
Whatever you do,
A Muslim waits there
To try to kill you.