News Center - Dutch lawmakers on Tuesday passed a motion recognizing ISIS crimes against the Êzidîs in Shengal in 2014 as genocide. The motion was submitted to parliament on Thursday by Anne Kuik, a Dutch MP for the Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA). The text of the motion noted that the EU Parliament, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, the US House of Representatives, the UN Commission on Syria, and recently the Belgian parliament recognized the ISIS crimes against Êzidîs, Christians, and other religious groups as genocide.

On Tuesday, the majority of the Dutch lawmakers voted for its passage and recognized the crimes committed by ISIS against Êzidîs as genocide.