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UN urges action to stop 'genocide' of Izadi Kurds

Iran Press TV

Tue Aug 12, 2014 2:24PM GMT

United Nations' rights monitors have called for urgent international action to avoid a potential genocide of Izadi Kurds in the militancy-riddled northern Iraq within days.

The UN monitors say thousands of the Kurdish minority are at risk of death either by violence or hunger and thirst.

'All possible measures must be taken urgently to avoid a mass atrocity and potential genocide within days or hours,' said Rita Izsak, the UN's minority rights expert.

Chaloka Beyani, the UN's monitor on the rights of displaced people, has also called for efforts to protect the community and promptly provide it with humanitarian aid.

'We are witnessing a tragedy of huge proportions unfolding in which thousands of people are at immediate risk of death by violence or by hunger and thirst,' Beyani said

Thousands of members of Izadi Kurds have been trapped in Sinjar Mountain, north of Iraq, for more than a week now. They were forced to flee after Sinjar town fell into the hands of ISIL Takfiri insurgents more than a week ago.

On Sunday, Iraq's human rights minister said the ISIL had executed at least 500 Izadi Kurds after seizing the town. Mohammed Shia al-Sudani said ISIL militants burned alive some of their victims, including women and children.

Reports say the Takfiri group has also kidnapped hundreds as slaves across some militancy-riddled regions

Meanwhile, all minorities in the Kirkuk region, including Turkmens and Kurds, have expressed concerns about the advance of ISIL terrorists.

The terrorist groups have links with Saudi intelligence and are believed to be indirectly supported by the Israeli regime.

Iraqi leaders have vowed that the country's security forces would confront the Takfiri terrorists. Iraqi Premier Nouri al-Malikihas repeatedly said that the US and its regional allies – especially Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Turkey -- are supporting the militancy in Iraq.

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