https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-59474616
On November 30th al-Jumaily was found guilty of Genocide by German courts for his actions taken as an Islamic State member against the Yazidis during their rule of that region. al-Jumaily was a member of IS in 2015 when they occupied the Sinjar region and subjected them to genocide. During this timeframe, al-Jumaily and his group had killed thousands of Yazidis men and enslaved, raped, and killed thousands of Yazidis women and children. The UN had classified this as a full act of genocide in may of 2021. al-Jumaily was extradited from Greece in 2019 to Germany where his trial took place. During the trial al-Jumaily’s lawyers unsuccessfully argued that he was innocent of these charges. The court found al-Jumaily guilty, a major point the prosecutors had was that al-Jumaily had left a 5-year-old girl chained up to a pole where she died. In German law, this was an act of genocide because under their international crime code the murder of a child with the intent of destroying an ethnic or religious group does constitute genocide. This ruling is significant because for the first time a member of IS was tried and convicted guilty of genocide against the Yazidis. This case has set a precedent in Germany on how they will deal with members of the Islamic State who were formerly ISIS members. Germany is the first world power to put into place a system of punishment for those members who have committed genocide or acts of genocide as a member of ISIS. This is important to the future of Afghanistan because if their leaders are extradited on the grounds of committing genocide it would disrupt an already unstable political landscape in that country. With Germany’s sentencing of al-Jumaily other western nations will likely follow suit with their policies in dealing with members of ISIS. This sets a zero tolerance international standard going forward for dealing with the members of ISIS.