Posted on 11/30/2021 2:36:33 PM PST by KingofZion
A German court sentenced a former Islamic State member on Tuesday to life imprisonment for the killing of a 5-year-old Yazidi girl at his home, marking the first conviction for committing genocide against members of the minority religious community.
Taha al-Jumailly, 29, an Iraqi citizen, was also found guilty of genocide and war crimes resulting in death at the court in Frankfurt. He was ordered to pay the child’s mother $57,000 in damages.
His 30-year-old German wife, Jennifer Wenisch, was sentenced last month in a separate trial to 10 years in prison in relation to the killing.
According to the indictment, Jumailly joined the Islamic State sometime before March 2013. He and his wife were accused by prosecutors of purchasing the child, Reda, and her mother as “slaves” when they lived in the Islamic State-occupied Iraqi city of Fallujah in 2015. Both Reda and her mother were subjected to violent beatings and other abuse by Jumailly.
The child’s mother, who was represented by well-known rights advocate Amal Clooney, gave evidence in both trials. She described how Jumailly tied her daughter to a window grill outside the home as punishment after she wet her mattress, where she then died of thirst in the heat in temperatures that reached 124 degrees.
The landmark ruling gives a small glimpse of accountability in relation to the Islamic State’s attempts to wipe out and enslave Iraq’s Yazidis after the group took over vast swaths of the country in 2014. As the militants swept through villages around the Yazidi ancestral home of Mount Sinjar in northern Iraq, they slaughtered men and dumped them in mass graves and rounded up women and children to be bought and sold as slaves.
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Note the mother's conviction was the subject of an earlier FR post.
So this pos was tried in Germany for something he did in the Middle East? Germany has declared itself this power? This is insane.
“So this pos was tried in Germany for something he did in the Middle East? Germany has declared itself this power?”
Israel has tried plenty of Germans in the Middle East for things they did in Germany...
Oh. It’s ok then.
Well, it’s certainly not unprecedented. The whole idea of a “crime against humanity” is that everyone on the planet is a victim. Therefore, there’s no real jurisdictional boundary for prosecution.
Iraq was part of the Third Reich. They’re fine.
I’m sure the Iraq government called and told them “you got this”.
I understand the concept. But the tendency to extend these ideas further and further until Americans are being tried in Belgium for gun violations makes me nervous. The climate activists are already demanding such international trials and prison and even death for spreading “misinformation”. It may seem too crazy to happen, but nothing on Earth is too crazy to happen.
Pretty sure the Iraqi government doesn’t give a damn what happens to ISIS rapists and mass murderers.
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