Posted on Jan 20, 2016
CH (COL) Geoff Bailey
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http://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2016-01-20/only-on-ap-oldest-christian-monastery-in-iraq-is-razed

ISIS has now destroyed multiple sites throughout the Middle East, almost stealing a page from the Taliban in Afghanistan. Does this signal a genocidal agenda? (Check article on destruction of Monastery in Mosul - St. Elijah's Monastery)
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CW4 Guy Butler
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No - genocide refers to a population group like the Yazidi.
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CH (COL) Geoff Bailey
CH (COL) Geoff Bailey
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That is a rather narrow definition of genocide.
The University of Hawaii offers the following definition from the International Criminal Court.
Genocide is foremost an international crime for which individuals, no matter how high in authority, may be indicted, tried, and punished by the International Criminal Court (ICC). According to Article 6 of the ICC Statute, This crime involves, "any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:
(a) Killing members of the group;
(b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
(c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
(d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
(e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group."

I would offer that the intentional destruction of artifacts from a group which has been killed or exiled from a region is a sign and symptom of a genocidal agenda.
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CW4 Guy Butler
CW4 Guy Butler
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Interesting... I'd consider the killing or exile of a group as evidence of of a genocidal agenda.
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SPC Keelan Southerland
SPC Keelan Southerland
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They have been going after the Kurds and trying to wipe them out. I do know from other sources they are taking young female children as slaves. First they kill the men and take all the women and do what they are prone to doing under those circumstances.
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
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Well looks like they have some Competition in the US Here with Y'all Queda in Oregon destroying Native American Cultural Sites.
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
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Hell it seems to be the Current in Thing anyway. Look what the Israelis are doing to Palestinian Cultural Sites.
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Cultural Genocide yes. Actual genocide, I believe they would like to but I don't believe they have the reach to do so.
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CH (COL) Geoff Bailey
CH (COL) Geoff Bailey
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They already killed or chased Christians and certain ethnic groups out of the areas they control.
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CPT Pedro Meza
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ISIS is simply doing a Kardasian doing stupid things to stay on the news; look at what we are doing here, free publicity.
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Sgt Comm Center Operator
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Like paid killers brain washed into thinking there is a pot of gold at the end. there is none , just more death. In their minds they feel they will be placed a King over their community. Shoot them , shoot them dead.
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PO3 Electrician's Mate
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It is a hard day work for them.
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