Yazidis fear annihilation after Iraq bombings
By Peter GraffThu Aug 16,
10:56 AM ET
Angry members of a minority sect in Iraq said on Thursday they
feared annihilation after scores were killed in possibly the worst suicide bomb
attack of the four-year conflict.Frail clay houses in the centre of
Kahtaniya, one of two villages targeted on Tuesday by garbage trucks packed with
explosives, were flattened for several blocks.Chunks of concrete and twisted
aluminum lay in the street beside the destroyed homes of hundreds of Yazidis, a
minority sect regarded by Sunni militants as infidels.Estimates of the death
toll varied from 175 to 500."Their aim is to annihilate us, to create
trouble and kill all the Yazidis because we are not...
"NO MORE YAZIDIS"
"Al Qaeda wants to kill all the Yazidis," said another
Kahtaniya villager, who gave his name only as Hossein. "Another bomb like this
and there will be no more Yazidis left."
Yazidis are members of a pre-Islamic
Kurdish sect of several hundred thousand in northern Iraq and Syria who say they
are persecuted for their beliefs...
This is from Reuters. If it is true, al Qaeda has now expanded its gaols from exterminating Jews to exterminating other, non-Muslim groups. Their ambition is exceeded only by their barbarism. The targetting of specific groups meets the definition of the Genocide Convention, as explained by the International Court of Justice in the recent (Feb. 2007) case of Bosnia v. Serbia.
The Renaissance Man askes why al Qaeda seems to be getting a pass on its genocidal goals from groups like Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch.
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