The Role of the ICRC in Implementing Security Council Resolution 2379 of 2017

Abstract

Terrorism is the painful and bloody reality that has become among the priorities of the national and international fight. Despite all the sporadic and individual attacks of terrorism here and there, state agencies have dealt with it as one of the phenomena that can be controlled and eliminated over time, until the world woke up to the attacks of September 11, 2001 by targeting Al-Qaeda The United States responded by launching its military campaign against the organization and its allies in its war on Afghanistan in 2001 and Iraq in 2003, and everyone imagined, through the reach of the United States, that this danger had been eradicated, but what was difficult to believe was that the perpetrators of terrorism focused on an idea that did not reach The extent of the reasonable perception of striking the countries of Syria in 2011 and Iraq in 2014 to overthrow the regimes and establish their Islamic state, according to what they promoted.

    But from 2014 to the end of 2017, Iraq fought a fierce war against terrorism - ISIS - and announced the purification of Iraqi lands from the control of (ISIS and its sisters), but the terrorist elements had committed multiple crimes, including murder, torture by all means, pictures, displacement, crimes of rape, enslavement, and trafficking in stolen antiquities, oil and gold. And other inhumane and illegal acts, which caused huge human losses.

Hence, the roles of international actors play, and accordingly, the Security Council issued its Resolution No. 2379 of 2017, forming an investigative team to collect evidence, documents and testimonies on those crimes, which it described in its resolution that they may rise to the level of crimes (war, against humanity or genocide), which necessitated cooperation The organizer is between Iraq and international humanitarian organizations, including the International Committee of the Red Cross.