UN team to begin probe of Daesh crimes in Iraq in early 2019
A United Nations team authorized over a year ago to
investigate the massacre of the Yazidi minority and other atrocities by Daesh
elements in Iraq will finally begin work early next year, the head of the
investigation said.
The UN Security Council adopted a resolution in
September 2017 to bring those responsible for Daesh group war crimes to justice
— a cause championed by Nobel Peace Prize winner Nadia Murad and international
human rights lawyer Amal Clooney, Voice of America reported.
The team, led by British lawyer Karim Asad Ahmad
Khan, was deployed to Baghdad in October, but has since focused on
administrative and technical details to lay the groundwork for the probe.
"The investigative team now looks forward to
continuing preparations in Iraq with a view to commencing investigative
activities in early 2019," Ahmad Khan told the council during his first
report.
