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"I think I was
asked this a couple months ago, and I said that term carries
with it legal import, it is a very important concept and label
for behavior that deserves that name," Clinton said at a town
hall in Berlin, New Hampshire, when asked about the Islamic
State's killing of Christians, Yazidis, Kurdish Muslims and
other religious minorities in the region.
"I am now sure we have enough evidence, what is happening is
genocide deliberately aimed at destroying lives and wiping out
the existence of Christians and other religious minorities,"
Clinton said.
Islamic State has targeted and killed members of the Yazidi
religion, one of the oldest in Iraq, along with Christians and
other religious minorities in the region it controls in the
Middle East.
The administration of President Barack Obama is weighing whether
to designate Islamic State violence a genocide and which
religious minorities would be coveraged by such a designation.
(Reporting by Amanda Becker in Washington; Editing by Eric Beech
and Michael Perry)
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