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Fresh move to prosecute IS for genocide
Bartella, 15km east of Mosul, was liberated from IS by Iraqi forces in October 2016. (Photo World Watch Monitor) Campaigners have welcomed a bill designed to facilitate the prosecution of Islamic State...
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Myanmar: ‘400 villages destroyed, 150,000 people displaced’ in Kachin
An elderly Kachin woman looks for shelter after fleeing fighting between Myanmar’s army and Kachin rebels in December 2011. (Photo: World Watch Monitor) More than 400 villages have been damaged or...
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Call for UN to establish International Day for victims of religious persecution
Local priest Father Daniel shows one of the many houses destroyed by Islamic State in the Iraqi town of Bashiqa, near Mosul, where Christians are slowly returning. (Photo courtesy of Open Doors...
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‘ISIS won despite defeat as West was unwilling to confront it’
Christians demonstrate in front of the UN office in Erbil, northern Iraq, in August 2015 (Photo: World Watch Monitor) The Islamic State group may have been defeated on the battlefield, but the West has...
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Fall in Christian refugee admissions ‘suggests Trump has no real interest in...
Iraqi Christians who fled Islamic State have found shelter in a church yard in Erbil, Iraq. (Photo: World Watch Monitor) The United States, under President Trump, has admitted 40 per cent fewer...
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‘UN must recognise persecution of Christians in Middle East as genocide’
“The UN must defend the rights of all religious minorities, including the Christians in Iraq, Syria, and any other place where ISIS has been engaging in genocide – without delay” – ECLJ. (Photo: World...
View ArticleIS ‘won’t escape justice’ after Trump signs genocide accountability act
Embed from Getty ImagesUS President Donald Trump signs the “Iraq and Syria Genocide Relief and Accountability Act of 2018” in the presence of, among others, Archbishop Bashar Warda of Erbil, Iraq...
View ArticleIraq: UN team starts probe into IS war crimes
One of the world’s most influential Muslim clerics has told a UN team that an investigation into “heinous crimes” committed against Christian and other Iraqi minorities was welcome and urgent, reports...
View Article‘It’s time to be real: what happens in Iraq is ethnic cleansing’ – UK analyst
Embed from Getty ImagesIraqi Christian children are playing in the grounds of a church in Erbil where their families fled to when Islamic state invaded the region. What Iraq’s Christians want from the...
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Nigeria: Violence continues but government in denial, church leaders say
A village in Southern Kaduna, in Nigeria’s “Middle Belt”, after an attack by Fulani militants. (Photo: World Watch Monitor) A pregnant woman and a child were among four people killed in attacks by...
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