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On the 3rd August 2014, fighters from the terrorist group, the Islamic State of Iraq and Al-Sham (ISIS), flooded out of their bases in Syria and Iraq, and swept across Sinjar region of northern Iraq is, at its nearest point, less than 15 kilometers from the Syrian border. It is home to the majority of the world's Yazidis a distinct religious community whose beliefs and practice span thousands of years, and whose adherents ISIS publicly reviles as infidels. ISIS 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. ISIS sought to destroy the Yazidis through killings; sexual slavery, enslavement, torture and inhuman and degrading treatment and forcible transfer causing serious bodily and mental harm; the infliction of conditions of life that bring about a slow death; the imposition of measures to prevent Yazidi children from being born, including forced conversion of adults, the separation of Yazidi men and women, and mental trauma; and the transfer of Yazidi children from their own families and placing them with ISIS fighters, thereby cutting them off from beliefs and practices of their own religious community, and erasing their identity as Yazidis. To this day the victims of this genocide await justice and this paper urges the international community to identify and prosecute the perpetrators.