{"id":13921,"date":"2016-03-23T07:50:19","date_gmt":"2016-03-23T07:50:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.acnmalta.org\/?p=13921"},"modified":"2016-03-23T07:50:19","modified_gmt":"2016-03-23T07:50:19","slug":"acn-welcomes-us-state-departments-isis-genocide-decision-marcela-szymanski-acn-konigstein","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acnmalta.org\/_oldsite\/2016\/03\/23\/acn-welcomes-us-state-departments-isis-genocide-decision-marcela-szymanski-acn-konigstein\/","title":{"rendered":"ACN welcomes US State Department\u2019s ISIS \u201cgenocide\u201d decision &#8211; Marcela Szymanski \u2013 ACN K\u00f6nigstein"},"content":{"rendered":"<style type=\"text\/css\"><\/style><h2><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">ACN welcomes US State Department\u2019s ISIS \u201cgenocide\u201d decision<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Aid to the Church in Need welcomes US State Department\u2019s decision to classify the persecution of Christians by ISIS as \u201cgenocide\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>Aid to the Church in Need welcomes the decision of the US State Department to classify the suffering Christians and other minorities have endured at the hands of ISIS as \u201cgenocide\u201d. The use of the term \u2013 which has a precise, technical meaning in international law \u2013 could open the door to action to stop those groups who seek the elimination of Christianity in its birthplace, and holds out the possibility of justice and redress for the victims.<\/p>\n<p>Aid to the Church in Need has received reports about attacks against Christian communities \u2013which are now being recognised as genocidal acts \u2013 from representatives of the Catholic Church in Syria, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon and, lately, in several African and Asian countries where the so-called Islamic State has attempted to eliminate Christians.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDeath is not the only condition which justifies the term genocide\u201d said ACN\u2019s Executive President Johannes Heereman, \u201cthe UN Convention (for the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide) states that the declared intention to destroy in whole or in part an ethnic, cultural, racial or religious group means that the act of the perpetrator is genocide. One does not have to \u2013 and indeed should not \u2013 wait until nobody is left to tell the story in order to call it genocide\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The acts of genocide as communicated to ACN by its project partners include murder, physical and mental harm, forcing groups into dire living conditions, the segregation of men and women, and the forcible transfer of children away from their parents.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is no need to create new terms to describe what is happening to us\u201d, said Bishop Antoine Chbeir of Latakia, Syria. \u201cAll acts of genocide are crimes against humanity but not vice versa. And [if a situation is declared to be a genocide] the UN has clearly prescribed actions to follow with its members that do not necessarily include sending soldiers on the ground\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The UN Convention mandates its signatory countries to stop genocide as it develops, not only by those direct perpetrators, but also any accomplices and enablers \u2013 including those funding them.<\/p>\n<p>The US State Department decision joins other recent initiatives within a global movement to stop the genocide against Christians and other minorities, notably the resolutions of the European Parliament (4 February 2016) and the Council of Europe (27 January 2016).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em><strong>Marcela Szymanski \u2013 ACN K\u00f6nigstein<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ACN welcomes US State Department\u2019s ISIS \u201cgenocide\u201d decision &nbsp; Aid to the Church in Need welcomes US State Department\u2019s decision to classify the persecution of Christians by ISIS as \u201cgenocide\u201d \u00a0Aid to the Church in Need welcomes the decision of the US State Department to classify the suffering Christians and other minorities have endured at&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14013,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-e-newsletters"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>ACN welcomes US State Department\u2019s ISIS \u201cgenocide\u201d decision - Marcela Szymanski \u2013 ACN K\u00f6nigstein - Aid to the Church in Need (Malta)<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/acnmalta.org\/_oldsite\/2016\/03\/23\/acn-welcomes-us-state-departments-isis-genocide-decision-marcela-szymanski-acn-konigstein\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"ACN welcomes US State Department\u2019s ISIS \u201cgenocide\u201d decision - Marcela Szymanski \u2013 ACN K\u00f6nigstein - Aid to the Church in Need (Malta)\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"ACN welcomes US State Department\u2019s ISIS \u201cgenocide\u201d decision &nbsp; 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