Tuesday in Ottawa, Liberal MPs defeated a Conservative parliamentary motion to recognize the assault on the Yazidis and other minorities as genocide, by 166-139. Earlier this month they reportedly burned 19 Yazidi women alive in a cage for refusing sex with their fighters. The terrorist group — also known as ISIS and ISIL — boasts of its conquests on its website, Dabiq. Akhavan is working with the Kurdistan government to set up a truth commission for the Yazidi survivors, and is helping to collect their testimonies, asking what they most need to achieve justice. But we have had no response from the Liberals.” Efforts to get the government’s approval for acceptance of Daesh survivors as refugees have so far failed, he added.

Source: thestar June 14, 2016 23:50 UTC