U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry declared in mid-March that the self-proclaimed Islamic State has
committed genocide against Yazidis, Christians, and Shia Muslims, and crimes against humanity against others in territories it controls. The finding, which fulfilled a congressional mandate, does not appear to be a
turning point in U.S. strategy to roll back the militant group, but does mark intensified efforts to document crimes for future prosecution, says the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum's
Naomi Kikoler. Insecurity and impunity in Iraq have encouraged the country's various ethnic and religious communities to form militias that could spur future cycles of violence, says Kikoler, whose
fact-finding trip to northern Iraq in September 2015 documented genocide against the Yazidi minority.
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Naomi Kikoler, Deputy Director, Simon-Skjodt Center for the Prevention of Genocide, U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum
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