BAGHDAD, Iraq, March 24 (NNN-NINA) – Iraqi Parliament Speaker, Mohammed al-Halbousi, confirmed the importance of documenting crimes committed by the extremist Daesh militants and holding the perpetrators accountable.
A statement by his office said, al-Halbousi met with Karim Khan, head of the United Nations Investigative Team, to Promote Accountability for Crimes Committed by Daesh (UNITAD), and the two discussed efforts to disclose and deal with the genocides committed by the Daesh.
“Halbousi stressed the importance of documenting their crimes, holding the perpetrators and those behind them accountable,” adding that the threat of terrorism is growing.
For his part, Khan expressed his team’s keenness to work in coordination with the Iraqi authorities, to uncover the genocides and massacres committed by the Daesh against the Iraqi people.
On March 21, the UN team announced their first exhumation of a Yazidi mass grave in the village of Kojo, south of the town of Sinjar, some 100 km west of Nineveh’s provincial capital Mosul, where the Daesh group killed hundreds of people in 2014.
The team exhumed remains of 30 bodies and their associated evidences and transported them to the medical legal directorate in Baghdad for investigation, it said.
UNITAD was established to support local efforts in holding the militants accountable for the crimes and genocides committed against humanity through the collecting, preserving and storing evidence, according to international standards.– NNN-NINA