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| https://fortenberry.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/fortenberry-eshoo-urge-state-department-consider-all-ethno-religious | Fortenberry, Eshoo Urge State Department to Consider All Ethno-Religious Minorities in Genocide Designation | 2015-11-20 | 2015 | 2015-11 | Republican | House | NE | Jeff Fortenberry | F000449 | fortenberry.house.gov | legacy | Washington, D.C. The bipartisan Co-Chairs of the Religious Minorities in the Middle East CaucusReps. Jeff Fortenberry (R-NE) and Anna G. Eshoo (D-CA)are strongly urging the State Department to include all ethno-religious minority populations as it considers designating ISIS attacks on minority populations in Iraq and Syria as genocide. In a letter dated November 19th to Secretary of State John Kerry, Fortenberry and Eshoo wrote: We're witnessing the systematic extermination of Iraq and Syrias entire ethno-religious minority populations and the atrocities perpetrated against each of these vulnerable groups shock the conscience of civilized humanity. Press reports have indicated, however, that the State Department is considering a less-inclusive designation of the genocide taking place. As Co-Chairs of the Religious Minorities in the Middle East Caucus, we request that as you consider the designation of genocide, you include in your designation every ethno-religious minority group being systematically targeted by ISIS. The United States must condemn the act of genocide as the most barbaric and criminal act of humankind and must do so for all those who are suffering. Fortenberry and Eshoo are authors of H. Con. Res. 75, a resolution declaring the atrocities being committed by ISIS in Iraq and Syria against Christians and other ethnic and religious minorities including Yezidis, Turkmen, Sabea-Mandeans, Kaka'e, and Kurds as genocide and crimes against humanity. ### | 1 | 2026-03-30T12:14:52Z | 2026-03-30T12:14:52Z |