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Wednesday 30 Dec 2015 - 12:33 Makkah mean time-19-3-1437
US presidential candidate Hillary Clinton (AP image)
Berlin, New Hampshire (IINA) – U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton slammed Tuesday the atrocities of Daesh (so called Islamic State) terrorists against Christians, Iraqi Yazidis and other religious minorities in the Middle East as genocide, Reuters reported.
"I think I was asked this a couple months ago, and I said that term carries with it legal import, it is a very important concept and label for behavior that deserves that name," Clinton said in Berlin, New Hampshire, when asked about the Islamic State's killing of Christians, Yazidis, Kurdish Muslims and other religious minorities in the region.
"I am now sure we have enough evidence, what is happening is genocide deliberately aimed at destroying lives and wiping out the existence of Christians and other religious minorities," Clinton said.
IS has targeted and killed members of the Yazidi religion, one of the oldest in Iraq, along with Christians and other religious minorities in the region it controls in the Middle East.
President Obama's administration is weighing whether to designate IS violence a genocide and which religious minorities would be covered by such a designation.
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