UNSC has obligation to act against ISIL: UN rights expert
The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) has an obligation to take action against acts of terrorism committed by the ISIL Takfiri group, mainly operating in Iraq and Syria, a UN human rights expert says.
“The Security Council has an obligation to act,” Ben Emmerson, the UN special rapporteur on human rights and counter-terrorism, said on Monday after submitting a report on ISIL's crimes.
He called on the Security Council to take immediate action to protect civilians living “in daily fear for their lives” in areas controlled by the ISIL Takfiri group, where “shocking crimes are being committed on an industrial scale.”
The UN human rights expert further noted that the UNSC has only condemned the terrorist group as a threat to international peace and security.
“Given the reports of genocide, all members of the Security Council may now have a specific responsibility to take action to prevent this most serious of international crimes,” he said, adding, “States are under an obligation to take measures to protect civilian populations from widespread and systematic acts of violence and terrorism.”
Enumerating the crimes committed by the terrorist group, the UN expert listed systematic torture, summary execution of religious and ethnic minority communities on a large scale, arbitrary execution of community leaders, journalists, intellectuals and others, and forced religious conversions.
“Mutilated corpses are put on public display as a deterrent,” Emmerson said, adding, “Systematic gender-based violence, rape and sexual slavery are a part of everyday life.”
The report further said that children in the areas under the control of the terrorist group are forced to participate in military training, and significant religious and cultural sites have been systematically destroyed.
“In short, those living under the terror of ISIL are in daily fear for their lives...These shocking crimes are being committed on an industrial scale and amount to an affront to the conscience of the entire international community,” said the report.
The ISIL terrorist group, with members from several Western countries, controls parts of Syria and Iraq, conducting heinous crimes against different ethnic and religious communities in the Arab countries.
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