Yazidis in Armenian insulted by Gurgen Arsenyan's statement (video)
“ISIS committed genocide against Yazidis in Iraq, killing more than 25 000 people,” Sayid Avdalyan, Chairman of the Association of Young Armenian Yazidis NGO, said on Sept. 9. He was angered by the statement of Armenian lawmaker Gurgen Arsenyan made during the discussion of a bill condemning the genocide of the Yazidi people of Iraq by the Islamic State. Arsenyan said that the slaughter of 20 000-25 000 Yazidis cannot be considered genocide. “Before the genocide of Yazidis in Iraq, some 1-1.5 million Yazidis lived in the country. Does Mr. Arsenyan want to say that all those people were to be killed by the IS to call the occurrence genocide? I just want to remind Mr. Arsenyan that UN Conventions say that if three people are killed for their religion or ethnicity, it is genocide,” Sayid Avdalyan said today. He added that the number of victims could be much higher because new fraternal cemeteries are being discovered in Iraq, with 400-500 bodies in them. The real number of victims will become clear only after conducting a census in Iraq. The bill condemning the genocide of the Yazidi people of Iraq by the Islamic State group was put into circulation in the Armenian legislature by Naira Zohrabyan, who heads the Prosperous Armenia Party (BHK) faction in parliament.
