; and (e) forcibly transferring children of the group to another group. . (5) In December 2015, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Simon-Skjodt Center for the Prevention of Genocide issued a report titled Our Generation Is Gone—the Islamic State’s Targeting of Iraqi Minorities in Ninewa , which concluded that IS committed crimes against humanity, war crimes, and ethnic cleansing … [and] perpetrated genocide against the Yezidi people . (6) On December 7, 2015, the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom called on the United States Government to designate the Christian, Yezidi, Shi'a, Turkmen, and Shabak communities of Iraq and Syria as victims of genocide by ISIL . (7) On February 3, 2016, the European Parliament unanimously passed a resolution declaring that IS is committing genocide against Christians and Yezidis, and other religious and ethnic minorities . (8) On March 14, 2016, the United States House of Representatives passed H. Con. Res. 75, expressing the sense of Congress that the atrocities perpetrated by IS against religious and ethnic minorities in Iraq and Syria include war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide, by a unanimous vote of 393–0. (9) On March 17, 2016, United States Secretary of State John Kerry declared that IS is responsible for genocide against groups under its control including Yazidis, Christians, and Shiite Muslims . (10) On June 15, 2016, the United Nations Human Rights Council issued the report They Came to Destroy: ISIS Crimes Against the Yazidis which stated that IS has committed the crime of genocide as well as multiple crimes against humanity and war crimes against the Yazidis, thousands of whom are held captive in the Syrian Arab Republic where they are subjected to almost unimaginable horrors . (11) President Barack Obama established the Atrocities Prevention Board in 2011, and stated that preventing atrocities and genocide is a core national security interest and a core moral responsibility of the United States . (12) Over 3,200 Yazidi