article_snippet: United Nations investigators have found evidence ISIS are committing genocide against the Yazidi minority in Iraq.
article_snippet: The report, based on interviews with more than 100 witnesses and survivors of attacks in Iraq between June 2014 and February 2015, highlights brutal ISIS attacks on the Yazidis.
article_snippet: Atrocities: Thousands of members of the Yazidi minority in Iraq were forced to flee a 2014 offensive by Islamic State militants in northern Iraq .
article_snippet: Thousands of members of the Yazidi religious minority have made calls for the perpetrators to be brought to justice at the International Criminal Court.
article_snippet: ISIS, which controls a swathe of territory in Iraq and neighbouring Syria, launched a series of systematic and widespread attacks on the Yazidi minority's heartland in the northern Nineveh province last August.
article_snippet: Head of the investigation, Suki Nagra, said: 'These attacks were aimed at destroying the Yazidi as a group,' suggesting ISIS was guilty of 'genocide' against the minority.
article_snippet: The report, which was ordered by the UN Human Rights Council last September following a request from the Iraqi government, pointed out that some villages 'were entirely emptied of some villages ' Yazidi population.'
article_snippet: Evidence of genoside: A mass grave containing the remains of members of the Yazidi community was discovered by Kurdish forces near the Iraqi village of Sinuni in February .
article_snippet: Many Yazidi women and girls were sold into sexual slavery or handed over to IS members as 'gifts', The report, which was ordered by the UN Human Rights Council last September following a request from the Iraqi government said, adding that witnesses had described hearing girls as young as six screaming for help as Many Yazidi women and girls were raped in a house used by IS fighters.
article_snippet: The Yazidis at first thought The Yazidis would be given the same choice as Christians in places overrun by the jihadists: to convert to Islam, pay a tax or leave.
article_snippet: A Yazidi child whose family fled a 2014 offensive by Islamic State militants at the Dohuk shelter for displaced civilians in Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region .
article_snippet: The Yazidis, whose ancient religion has elements of Christianity, Islam and Zoroastrianism, are considered to be devil worshippers by the Sunni Muslim militants.
article_snippet: Other religious and ethnic groups have also been targeted, according to the report, including Christians, Turkmen, Kurds and Shia. '
article_snippet: No community has been spared,' said Nagra, pointing to the thousands of Christians who fled the thousands of Christians who fled their homes last June after being ordered by IS fighters to convert to Islam homes last June after being ordered by IS fighters to convert to Islam, pay a tax or leave.
article_snippet: The jihadists have also ruthlessly targeted anyone perceived to be connected with the Iraqi government, the report, including Christians, Turkmen, Kurds and Shia said, pointing to the massacre last June of up to 1,700 cadets from the Speicher army base, after The jihadists reportedly surrendered.
article_snippet: Displaced: Thousands of Yazidis fled across the border into Syria as the religious minority were subjected to mass killing, torture and rape during a 2014 offensive by Islamic State militants in northern Iraq .
article_snippet: Outcry: Iraqi Kurdish protesters hold placards and shout slogans denouncing the ISIS threat to Yazidi women and girls during a 2014 demonstration outside the United Nations offices in Arbil .