UN will begin investigating IS crimes against Yazidis early next year The United Nations team authorized to investigate IS crimes against the Yazidis and other atrocities in Iraq will begin work early next year.

UN will begin investigating IS crimes against Yazidis early next year The United Nations team authorized to investigate IS crimes against the Yazidis and other atrocities in Iraq will begin work early next year.

France press agency quoted from the head of the investigation in the UN team concerned to IS crimes in Iraq saying, "The United Nations team authorized for more than a year to investigate the Yazidi massacre and other atrocities committed by IS in Iraq will finally begin work early next year."

The agency added, "The United Nations' Security Council adopted a resolution in September 2017 to present those who are responsible for the crimes that were carried out by IS to the justice, and it is the case that had been defended by Nadia Murad, the recipient of Nobel Prize for Peace and the international human rights lawyer Amal Cloney."

It is worth mentioning that the team, led by the British lawyer Karim Assad Ahmed Khan, told the council in his first report that the investigative team is now looking forward to the continuing preparations in Iraq to start the investigative activities in early 2019."

Ahmed Khan told the council that achieving our investigative activities depends on securing cooperation, support and trust for all elements of the Iraqi society.

The United Nations has described IS crimes against the Yazidis as a "possible genocide", and UN investigators have documented horrific accounts on abuses against women and girls by IS.

It is worth mentioning that Nadia Murad is one of the thousands of Yazidi women who were taken as hostages and were held as sex slaves when IS mercenaries had raided Sinjar area in Iraq in August 2014.

"The investigators will collect evidences about war crimes against humanity or genocide to use them in the Iraqi courts which will conduct trials against IS mercenaries in accordance with the UN resolution," AFP said.

More than 200 mass graves containing up to 12,000 corpses have been discovered in Iraq recently.

The United States announced that it would provide $ 2 million to support the work of the investigation team to strengthen accountability for crimes committed by IS.

After winning the Nobel Peace Prize this year, Nadia has said that she wanted to try IS mercenaries "Daesh" in the courtroom.

"Justice does not mean to kill all the members of IS who committed these crimes against us. The justice for me is the transfer of IS members to a law court to see them in the court confessing their crimes against the Yazidis and specifically punish them for those crimes," she said in October.

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