Post by Daniel on May 18, 2017 9:01:23 GMT -5
A Time to Act – Demanding the U.N. Recognize and Stop the Genocide of Christians
By Olivia Summers
A stated purpose of the United Nations (U.N.) is to suppress “acts of aggression or other breaches of the peace.” Currently, ISIS is aggressively targeting Christians in acts of genocide.
This is why we have submitted yet another statement requesting that the U.N. “join other international bodies and formally recognise that the ongoing atrocities committed by ISIS against Christians, Yazidis, and other religious and ethnic minorities in Iraq, Syria, and elsewhere in the region constitute genocide for purposes of implicating the obligations of the international community pursuant to the Genocide Convention and the well-established responsibility to protect.”
With every day that passes where the U.N. fails to recognize the genocide and fails to act, more and more lives are lost. The little hope that the victims of genocide cling to is also being lost. One survivor stated, “No one cares about us like we are not human” and that they “didn’t feel valued as humans.”
Indeed, ISIS’s acts against Christians and other minorities are unbelievably inhuman. As we detailed for the U.N...
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aclj.org/persecuted-church/a-time-to-act-demanding-the-un-recognize-and-stop-the-genocide-of-christians
By Olivia Summers
A stated purpose of the United Nations (U.N.) is to suppress “acts of aggression or other breaches of the peace.” Currently, ISIS is aggressively targeting Christians in acts of genocide.
This is why we have submitted yet another statement requesting that the U.N. “join other international bodies and formally recognise that the ongoing atrocities committed by ISIS against Christians, Yazidis, and other religious and ethnic minorities in Iraq, Syria, and elsewhere in the region constitute genocide for purposes of implicating the obligations of the international community pursuant to the Genocide Convention and the well-established responsibility to protect.”
With every day that passes where the U.N. fails to recognize the genocide and fails to act, more and more lives are lost. The little hope that the victims of genocide cling to is also being lost. One survivor stated, “No one cares about us like we are not human” and that they “didn’t feel valued as humans.”
Indeed, ISIS’s acts against Christians and other minorities are unbelievably inhuman. As we detailed for the U.N...
more
aclj.org/persecuted-church/a-time-to-act-demanding-the-un-recognize-and-stop-the-genocide-of-christians
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