Islamic State (ISIS) jihadists committed genocide against Iraq's Yazidis in the north of the country and carried out crimes against humanity, ethnic cleansing, and war crimes against other minorities, the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum said on Thursday, according to Reuters.
A report by the museum's Simon-Skjodt Center for the Prevention of Genocide determined that the crimes were committed against Christian, Yazidi, Turkmen, Shabak, Sabaean-Mandaean, and Kaka'i people in Nineveh province between June and August of 2014.
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