Washington considers what happened to the Kurds of Yezidis and Christians in Iraq and Syria is a "genocide"

ARK News: The United States officially recognized the genocide of the Yazidis and the Chaldean Syriac Assyrian Christian people.
This came during the ceremony of the draft resolution "HR390" signed by US President Donald Trump in the White House, on Tuesday, in the presence of the Archbishop Mar Bashar Matti Warda, where he admitted that "the crimes committed by Da’esh terrorist gangs against the Christians and the Yazidis in Iraq and Syria are (genocide).

The resolution included a commitment from the US government to provide them with the necessary humanitarian assistance to rebuild their liberated areas and to prosecute those responsible for the crimes.

Trump stressed the importance of this decision and the commitment of his government to implement the provisions of the draft resolution, pledging to prosecute those responsible for these crimes.

The decrees began Tuesday morning, 11 December 2018 at a hearing in the White House in which the "Knight General of the Knights of Columbus," Carl Andersen, a briefing on the march of the adoption of this important project for the victims of the Da’esh organization, and the commitment of the "Knights" over the past years "to work with others to reach this historic day in the life of America, where the two main Parties agreed on the draft resolution and obtained a majority of votes."

Mark Crane, the official at the mentioned Foundation, delivered a detailed speech on "American development programs and talked about the Foundation's projects in Iraq and Syria."

For his part, Vice President Mike Bens delivered a speech in which he praised the efforts in the relief of victims of crimes of Da’esh and urged and pledged to continue support for these programs.

Source: Agencies

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