{"id":10329,"date":"2017-03-10T04:31:57","date_gmt":"2017-03-10T04:31:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/amal-clooney-urges-un-to-back-islamic-state-probe\/"},"modified":"2017-03-10T04:31:57","modified_gmt":"2017-03-10T04:31:57","slug":"amal-clooney-urges-un-to-back-islamic-state-probe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/amal-clooney-urges-un-to-back-islamic-state-probe\/","title":{"rendered":"Amal Clooney urges UN to back Islamic State probe"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Image caption Amal Clooney addressed members of the United Nations <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Lawyer Amal Clooney has urged the UN to act against so-called Islamic State by backing a UK-led investigation into the group's atrocities in Iraq.<\/p>\n

Speaking at the UN, Mrs Clooney said IS had declared it will "destroy" the country's Yazidi ethnic group through murder, rape and forced conversions.<\/p>\n

The British-Lebanese human rights lawyer said IS was also attacking Christians, and Shia and Sunni Muslims.<\/p>\n

Mrs Clooney, who is based in London, accused the UN of "inaction".<\/p>\n

She said: "The UN was created as the world's way of saying 'never again' to the genocide perpetrated by the Nazis.<\/p>\n

"And yet here we are, 70 years later, discussing the UN's inaction in the face of a genocide that we all know about, and that is ongoing."<\/p>\n

The UK is drafting a Security Council resolution to establish a UN investigation, but Mrs Clooney said the Iraqi government needs to send a letter formally requesting the inquiry before the 15-member council can vote.<\/p>\n

Media captionAmal Clooney said the Yazidi testimony was "harrowing"<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Mrs Clooney called for mass graves to be preserved and exhumed, and witness evidence to be recorded, even if it was not supported by Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, who was present at the UN meeting.<\/p>\n

Mrs Clooney said the organisation should press ahead regardless.<\/p>\n

She ended her speech to the UN by saying: "Don't let this be another Rwanda, where you regret doing too little, too late. Don't let Isis [Islamic State] get away with genocide."<\/p>\n

Media captionYazidis revere the Bible and Koran - but much of their tradition is oral<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n