{"id":48923,"date":"2015-03-20T02:00:26","date_gmt":"2015-03-20T02:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/bbc_isis_may_have_committed_genocide_in_undertaking_yazidi_attacks\/"},"modified":"2015-03-20T02:00:26","modified_gmt":"2015-03-20T02:00:26","slug":"bbc_isis_may_have_committed_genocide_in_undertaking_yazidi_attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=48923","title":{"rendered":"(BBC) ISIS &#39;may have committed genocide&#39; in undertaking Yazidi attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jihadists from the Islamic State (IS) group may have committed genocide and war crimes against the minority Yazidi community in Iraq, the UN says.<\/p>\n<p>In a new report, it says IS had &#8220;the intent&#8230; to destroy the Yazidi as a group.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Tens of thousands of Yazidis fled villages in northern Iraq amid IS advances last summer. Many were killed, captured and enslaved.<\/p>\n<p>Yazidis follow an ancient faith that jihadists regard as devil worship.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-middle-east-31962755\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jihadists from the Islamic State (IS) group may have committed genocide and war crimes against the minority Yazidi community in Iraq, the UN says. In a new report, it says IS had &#8220;the intent&#8230; to destroy the Yazidi as a<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=48923\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,50,42,168,557,426,203,155,108,148,34,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-iraq","category-islam","category-middle-east","category-other-faiths","category-religion-culture","category-terrorism","category-theology","category-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48923\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}