Counter-Daesh Update

Debate between Diana Johnson and Michael Fallon

Thursday 13th July 2017 Commons Chamber

[Diana Johnson (Kingston upon Hull North) (Lab)]

With more Yazidi women being freed this week with the liberation of Mosul, will the Secretary of State say more about the particular case of the Yazidis and whether the Government have reached a conclusion on whether their treatment by Daesh is genocide?

[Sir Michael Fallon]

We continue to look for more evidence, specifically on the Yazidis, to ascertain whether the brutal treatment that they suffered was genocidal. We are also accumulating evidence across the board so that those who are eventually detained can be properly held to account.