“Intent to Destroy”: Reflections on the Swedish #Yazidi #Genocide Case

https://www.ejiltalk.org/intent-to-destroy-reflections-on-the-swedish-yazidi-genocide-case/

> Reading the Swedish judgments in the Lina Ishaq case is an unsettling experience. The description of the atrocities inflicted on the Yazidi community by ISIS is presented with a level of factual precision that leaves little space for abstraction. The Stockholm District Court’s account of the attacks on Sinjar and the subsequent treatment of Yazidi […]

“Intent to Destroy”: Reflections on the Swedish Yazidi Genocide Case

Reading the Swedish judgments in the Lina Ishaq case is an unsettling experience. The description of the atrocities inflicted on the Yazidi community by ISIS is presented with a level of factual precision that leaves little space for abstraction. The Stockholm District Court’s account of the attacks on Sinjar and the subsequent treatment of Yazidi […]

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