Subject: ISIS is Committing Anti-Christian Genocide. Now What?

(CNSNews.com) – Rep. Chris Smith (R-N.J.) on Thursday applauded Secretary of State John Kerry’s decision to call the ISIS atrocities in Iraq and Syria against Christians and other religious minorities “genocide,” but also asked, “Now what?”

“I—and many others—had been appealing to the Administration for almost three years to recognize the systematic slaughter, rape and torture of Christians and other people of faith by ISIS as genocide,” Smith, chairman of the Africa, Global Health, Global Human Rights and International Organizations Subcommittee, said, “I chaired my first hearing on this in June of 2013. Last December 9, I chaired an emergency hearing on the hoped for designation.”

“Now what?” Smith asked.

Smith argued in his statement that part of the answer to that question is in a resolution that passed the House of Representatives on Monday along with Rep. Jeff Fortenberry’s (R-Neb.) resolution designating ISIS atrocities against religious minorities as genocide.

Smith’s companion resolution, which passed the House by a vote of 392-3 on Monday, calls for the establishment of a Syrian war crimes tribunal and asks specifically “the President to direct the U.S. representative to the United Nations to promote the establishment of a Syrian war crimes tribunal; and other nations to apprehend and deliver into tribunal custody any persons indicted for war crimes, crimes against humanity, or genocide in Syria.”

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