Amal Clooney says she plans on taking ISIS to court, once again reiterating her damning comments she made to the UN last week about its shameful efforts to stop the terrorist group from forcing women into sexual slavery.
While appearing on NBC’s Today, the 38-year-old attorney and activist sat alongside her new client, Nadia Murad and said she had an ambitious plan to try the terror group for crimes against humanity.
Attorney and activist Amal Clooney with client, Nadia Murad.
Murad, 23, is a member of the Yazidi community and had her mother and brothers murdered by ISIS when jihadists invaded her village in Northern Iraq in August 2014 and took her as a sex slave. Murad was sold to an ISIS commander before she escaped her captors after months of brutal torture.
On Friday the young Yazidi woman was named as a UN Goodwill Ambassador and it was during that meeting that Clooney said she was sickened by the global body’s failure to bring any ISIS member up on charges of genocide – a point she reiterated in her breakfast interview on Monday.
Of her unconventional speech to the UN Clooney said she felt compelled to speak frankly because she “did feel a sense of outrage.”
“It’s been harrowing to hear the testimony of girls as young as 11 and 12, what’s happened to them. And still we haven’t done anything about them.”
Journalist Cynthia McFadden pointed to what she says is an argument of many: “ISIS needs to be bombed out of existence.”
“It’s not enough,” Clooney returned. “You can’t kill an idea that way. I think one of the ways to take action is to expose their brutality and their corruption, and partly you can do that through trials.”
Amal Clooney with husband George Clooney.
Despite the threats laid out by ISIS against both Clooney and Murad to take the jihadists to court, the attorney said she’d discussed the risks with her husband, George Clooney who understands her reason for taking on such a cause.
“He met Nadia, too, and I think he was moved. He understands, I mean, this is my work.”
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