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Yazidi Leaders Congratulate Trump on Presidential Election Victory

Leaders and activists from the Yazidi minority community in Iraq, which has largely suffered ethnic cleansing and other war crimes at the hands of the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL), have expressed a mixture of hope and congratulations over Donald Trump’s recent election as U.S. president.

Sinjar Mayor Mahma Khalil Qasim near the middle with scarf around his neck.

Islamic State Burns ‘Blasphemous’ Christian Books in Mosul

The U.S. State Department is currently facing pressure to formally recognize the purge of Christians from Iraq and Syria as genocide. The Islamic State added to the mountain of evidence against it by releasing a video that shows hundreds of Christian books burned in the captive city of Mosul.

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Khieu Samphan: ‘I Have Never Wanted Anything Other Than Social Justice’

“What I want to say today and what I want my countrymen to hear is that as an intellectual I have never wanted anything other than social justice for my country,” 84-year-old Khieu Samphan told a courtroom on Wednesday. “I shall shout loudly that I never wanted to agree to any policy that is against the Cambodian people.”

CAMBODIA, Phnom Penh : This handout photo taken and released by the Extraordinary Chambers