Yazidi's seek justice from international courts

British lawyers have told The Guardian, that countries failed in their obligations to prevent genocide against Iraq's Yazidis. There has been little accountability for the Yazidi Genocide. It is also widely acknowledged that more than 5,000 Yazidis have been killed. 

The lawyers, who formally announced their collaboration as the Yazidi Justice Committee on Tuesday, have been working over the past two and a half years to investigate the genocide committed by Islamic State. 

The YJC lawyers have examined evidence that as many as 10 countries could be deemed responsible for the failure to prevent genocide under the UN’s Genocide Convention, and could be brought before a court of law. 

The aim is to bring those states before the international court of justice (ICJ) and if the case was successful, the respondent states might then be required to pay reparations to the victims of Islamic State's genocide.

Back in 2016, Nobel Prize winner Nadia Murad came to the UK where she met the AMAR Foundation’s chair Baroness Emma Nicholson and Baroness Anelay of the UK’s Foreign Office, to discuss the plight of Iraq’s Yazidi women. 

As Baroness Nicholson stated; “What happened to Nadia and the thousands of other poor Yazidi women was absolutely shocking. Now, the world is finally waking up to the enormity of the crimes perpetrated against them. It is a Genocide. The sheer murderous brutality of the vile Daesh is almost beyond words.”