Parliamentarians in Germany are planning to declare that the atrocities committed by the “Islamic State” (IS) against Yazidis amounted to genocide, with a vote in the Bundestag expected next week.
The agreement was reported by public broadcaster “Tagesschau” and the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) newspaper on Friday.
Both Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s three-party governing coalition and the largest opposition party have agreed to back the vote, which could lead to a judicial reappraisal and financial help for displaced Yazidis to return home.
