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STORY: UN / DAESH ISIL
TRT: 02:37
SOURCE: UNIFEED
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / ARABIC / NATS
DATELINE: 26 NOVEMBER 2019, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
FILE – RECENT, NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior United Nations headquarters
26 NOVEMBER 2019, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, Security Council
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Karim Asad Ahmad Khan, Special Adviser and Head of the United Nations Investigative Team to Promote Accountability for Crimes Committed by Da’esh / Islamic State and the Levant:
“All communities, Madame President, whether Shabak, Kaka’i, Shia, Sunni, Christian, Turkmen, or Yezidi, have suffered unbelievable brutality and cruelty of the most un-Islamic state, called Da’esh. And it is off course essential that their voices are their experiences are listened to as we conduct our investigations to build credible cases to ensure accountability.”
4. Wide shot, Council
5. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Kachi, Da’esh / ISIL Survivor:
“Today, it is no longer enough for the Yazidi community to hold those responsible for these crimes accountable and to prosecute them. The international community must acknowledge that the crimes committed against the Yazidi community amount to genocide.”
6. Med shot, delegates
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Kelly Craft, Permanent Representative of the United States to the United Nations:
“Lest we forget, ISIS is responsible for the deaths of thousands of innocent Iraqi civilians. It desecrated churches and mosques and other houses of worship. It drove millions of Iraqis from their homes. It held hundreds of women as slaves, subjecting them to brutal assault. These are acts of pure evil, and as a body dedicated to maintaining international peace and security, it is our solemn responsibility to speak the truth about what ISIS did, to document this truth, and to answer the prayer for justice for those whose lives have been turned upside down by ISIS.”
8. Med shot, delegates
9. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Mohammad Hussein Ali Bahr Aluloom, Permanent Representative of Iraq to the United Nations:
“My country is looking forward to this new phase of positive change and reconstruction following the dark chapter of ISIS. We must turn this page as soon as possible by identifying the perpetrators of these heinous crimes against our people and by bringing them to justice.”
11. Zoom out, Council
The Head of the UN team tasked with investigating crimes committed by the Da’esh / ISIL terrorist network (UNITAD), Karim Asad Ahmad Khan, today (26 Nov) told the Security Council that it is “essential” that the voices and experiences of victims “are listened to as we conduct our investigations to build credible cases to ensure accountability.”
Ahmad Khan said all communities, “whether Shabak, Kaka’i, Shia, Sunni, Christian, Turkmen, or Yezidi, have suffered unbelievable brutality and cruelty of the most un-Islamic state, called Da’esh.
He told the Council that One year following its arrival in Iraq, the investigative team is now
fully operational, with a total of 107 staff members.
Briefing the Council via teleconference from Iraq, Kachi, a Yazidi survivor of Da’esh / ISIL violence said, “it is no longer enough for the Yazidi community to hold those responsible for these crimes accountable and to prosecute them. The international community must acknowledge that the crimes committed against the Yazidi community amount to genocide.”
United States Ambassador Kelly Craft, in her briefing said Daesh / ISIL “is responsible for the deaths of thousands of innocent Iraqi civilians. It desecrated churches and mosques and other houses of worship. It drove millions of Iraqis from their homes. It held hundreds of women as slaves, subjecting them to brutal assault.”
These, she said, “are acts of pure evil, and as a body dedicated to maintaining international peace and security, it is our solemn responsibility to speak the truth about what ISIS did, to document this truth, and to answer the prayer for justice for those whose lives have been turned upside down by ISIS.”
For his part, Iraqi Ambassador Mohammad Hussein Ali Bahr Aluloom said, “my country is looking forward to this new phase of positive change and reconstruction following the dark chapter of ISIS. We must turn this page as soon as possible by identifying the perpetrators of these heinous crimes against our people and by bringing them to justice.”
UNITAD’s implementation strategy entails three initial areas for investigation: attacks committed by ISIL against the Yazidi community in the Sinjar district in August 2014; crimes committed by ISIL in Mosul between 2014 and 2016; and the mass killing of unarmed Iraqi air force cadets from Tikrit Air Academy.
